Source: node-approximate-now Section: javascript Maintainer: Debian Javascript Maintainers Uploaders: Joseph Nahmias , Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-nodejs Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), dh-nodejs, dh-sequence-nodejs, node-benchmark , node-types-node, node-typescript, ts-node , Standards-Version: 4.7.4 Homepage: https://github.com/gajus/approximate-now Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-approximate-now.git Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-approximate-now Package: node-approximate-now Architecture: all Multi-Arch: foreign Depends: ${misc:Depends}, Description: approximate (fast) current UNIX time for Node.js Sometimes you don't care about the exact time the event took place, but rather need to know approximately when. If your use case is performance sensitive, then Date.now() might not be the best option because it has a measurable impact to the performance. approximate-now provides an approximate (to the error of 50ms) time without a performance penalty of Date.now(). . Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.