code: function getTimestampString(date) {
      // all this nasty code is faster (~30k ops/sec) than doing "moment(date).format('HH:mm:ss:SSS')" and means 0 dependencies
      var hour = '0' + date.getHours();
      hour = hour.slice(hour.length - 2);
      var minute = '0' + date.getMinutes();
      minute = minute.slice(minute.length - 2);
      var second = '0' + date.getSeconds();
      second = second.slice(second.length - 2);
      var ms = '' + date.getMilliseconds();
  
      // https://github.com/MarkHerhold/palin/issues/6
      // this is faster than using an actual left-pad algorithm
      if (ms.length === 1) {
          ms = '00' + ms;
      } else if (ms.length === 2) {
          ms = '0' + ms;
      } // no modifications for 3 or more digits
  
      return chalk.dim(`${hour}:${minute}:${second}:${ms}`);
  }
docs: retruns the colorized timestamp string