Source: node-date-now Section: javascript Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Javascript Maintainers Uploaders: Shirish Togarla Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13) , dh-sequence-nodejs , node-tape Standards-Version: 4.6.0 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-date-now Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-date-now.git Homepage: https://github.com/Raynos/date-now Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-nodejs Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: node-date-now Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends} Multi-Arch: foreign Description: requirable version of Date.now() Use-case is to be able to mock out Date.now() using require interception. For example var now = require("date-now") var ts = now() var ts2 = Date.now() assert.equal(ts, ts2) Example of seed: var now = require("date-now/seed")(timeStampFromServer) // ts is in "sync" with the seed value from the server // useful if your users have their local time being a few minutes // out of your server time. var ts = now() . Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.