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Getting unique timestamps in Javascript

Sometimes, when you want to generate unique id’s or similar, it is very common to use the current date as unix timestamp (new Date().getTime() or $time() in Mootools). The problem is that if we get the current timestamp multiple times too fast, it may happen that we get exactly the same value. Actually, this will [...]

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Eneko Alonso is a software engineer and UI developer with more than eight years of experience in software and web development. He lives in San Luis Obispo, California and works at LEVEL Studios.

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