So, I know you can do something like this:
prev.mtime
In side of the fs.watchFile function, but that will return the date formated with something like this:
Fri Aug 02 2013 17:40:28 GMT-0400 (EDT)
But I would like to get the previous timestamp line in milliseconds.
prev.mtime is a JavaScript Date object. What you're seeing is the default string representation of the object. You can use its getTime() method to get the timestamp in milliseconds.
References:
http://nodejs.org/api/fs.html#fs_class_fs_stats
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date
wow, nevermind... I got it:
console.dir(prev.mtime.getTime());
console.dir(curr.mtime.getTime());
That was easy!