As wizzard pointed out, the correct method is,

new Date().getTime();

or under Javascript 1.5, just

Date.now();

From the documentation,

The value returned by the getTime method is the number of milliseconds since 1 January 1970 00:00:00 UTC.

If you wanted to make a time stamp without milliseconds you can use,

Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000);

I wanted to make this an answer so the correct method is more visible.

You can compare ExpExc's and Narendra Yadala's results to the method above at http://jsfiddle.net/JamesFM/bxEJd/, and verify with http://www.unixtimestamp.com/ or by running date +%s on a Unix terminal.

The easiest way of getting UTC time in a conventional format is as follows:

> new Date().toISOString()
"2016-06-03T23:15:33.008Z"

if you need EPOC timestamp, pass your date to Date.parse method

> Date.parse(new Date)
1641241000000
> Date.parse('2022-01-03T20:18:05.833Z')
1641241085833

Or you can use + for type casting from Date to Int

> +new Date 
1641921156671

EPOC timestamp in seconds.

> parseInt(Date.parse('2022-01-03T20:18:05.833Z') / 1000)
1641241085
> parseInt(new Date / 1000)
1643302523

The toISOString() method returns a string in simplified extended ISO format (ISO 8601), which is always 24 or 27 characters long (YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.sssZ or ±YYYYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.sssZ, respectively). The timezone is always zero UTC offset, as denoted by the suffix "Z".

Source: MDN web docs

The format you need is created with the .toISOString() method. For older browsers (ie8 and under), which don't natively support this method, the shim can be found here:

This will give you the ability to do what you need:

var isoDateString = new Date().toISOString();
console.log(isoDateString);

For Timezone work, moment.js and moment.js timezone are really invaluable tools...especially for navigating timezones between client and server javascript.