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Tried to search but nothing obvious showed up. What's the purpose of the 1 in '1 * new Date()'?

Edit: found it. Gets the timestamp[1]

Right, back to the point of saving characters/bytes at scale it's a cheaper way to getTime()

And if you don't need to support IE8 or lower, you can use Date.now()

Some do analytics tools use +new Date instead