Notification: timestamp property

Limited availability

This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

Secure context: This feature is available only in secure contexts (HTTPS), in some or all supporting browsers.

Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The timestamp read-only property of the Notification interface returns a number, as specified in the timestamp option of the Notification() constructor.

The notification's timestamp can represent the time, in milliseconds since 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970, of the event for which the notification was created, or it can be an arbitrary timestamp that you want associated with the notification. For example, a timestamp for an upcoming meeting could be set in the future, whereas a timestamp for a missed message could be set in the past.

Value

A number representing a timestamp, given as Unix time in milliseconds.

Examples

The following snippet fires a notification; a simple options object is created, then the notification is fired using the Notification() constructor.

js
const dts = Math.floor(Date.now());

const options = {
  body: "Your code submission has received 3 new review comments.",
  timestamp: dts,
};

const n = new Notification("New review activity", options);

console.log(n.timestamp); // Logs the timestamp

Specifications

Specification
Notifications API
# dom-notification-timestamp

Browser compatibility

desktop mobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
timestamp
Experimental
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 50 (Release date: 2016-04-13)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 17 (Release date: 2018-04-30)
footnote Full support
Firefox – No support
Firefox
footnote No support
Opera – Full support
Opera 37 (Release date: 2016-05-04)
footnote Full support
Safari – No support
Safari
footnote No support
Chrome Android – Full support
Chrome Android 50 (Release date: 2016-04-13)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – No support
Firefox for Android
footnote No support
Opera Android – Full support
Opera Android 37 (Release date: 2016-06-16)
footnote Full support
Safari on iOS – No support
Safari on iOS
footnote No support
Samsung Internet – Full support
Samsung Internet 5 (Release date: 2016-12-15)
footnote Full support
WebView Android – No support
WebView Android
footnote
footnote See bug 40443309
WebView on iOS – No support
WebView on iOS
footnote No support

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Full support
Full support
No support
No support
Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.
See implementation notes.

See also