Confused about auto-update code

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By Grant Stavely — Last update Jul 16, 2010 — Installed 21,588 times.

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iaindalton User

CheckScriptForUpdate = {
...
 time: new Date().getTime() | 0,
...
}

I don't understand why you bitwise-or the number of milliseconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 with 0. I fooled around at the JS console and got this:

js> var time = new Date().getTime();
js> time
1242371790835
js> time | 0
1126242291

What does it mean? I don't glark it from context either.

you will have to ask sizzlemctwizzle as that is who wrote the auto update code