I think it's pretty self-explanatory: + forces the invocation of valueOf to
get the primitive value, which in the case of Date is the timestamp.
It's the same behavior you would expect if you try to perform another
arithmetic operation (new Date * 1)
That said, I think that it really doesn't matt
Personally, I find that the expression +new Date is obtuse and doesn't
really explain what is happening very well. You're creating an object
- then putting a plus next to it - to get some result. Is it a string?
a number? Whereas (new Date).getTime() is very explicit: You know that
you're getting t
Grepping for 'new Date' through the jquery source shows a bit of
variety in Date -> Time handling.
Casual question really: Is there an aim to get consistency in the code-
base, or a "house style" on how to handle dates?
Some of the variety seems to come from context and purpose: when
you're optim
