Cordova check close app event and save date/time

when my users pause their app, I save the date in a window.localStorage object so that when the app gets resumed I can send a request to my server and see if there are new messages for them. this works but when they close the app and restart, I need to set the date again so I can’t check if there are messages between the time they closed it and restarted, since this is different from pause and resume. here’s a code sample to show a bit what I mean.

This is when the app get’s started:

$ionicPlatform.ready(function() {

    var now = new Date();
    var year =   now.getFullYear();
    var month =   now.getMonth() + 1;
    var days =   now.getDate();
    var hours =   now.getHours();
    var minutes =   now.getMinutes();
    var seconds =   now.getSeconds();
    var now = year + '-' + month + '-' + days + ' ' + hours + ':' + minutes + ':' + seconds; 
    window.localStorage.setItem('lastActive',now);

});

And these are the onpause/resume functions

document.addEventListener("resume", onResume, false);
document.addEventListener("pause", onPause, false);


function onResume() {
    if(window.localStorage.getItem('lastActive')){
        var lastActive = window.localStorage.getItem('lastActive');
        console.log('last seen on: '+lastActive);
        $http({method: 'get', url: '***/api.php/inbox/'+window.localStorage.getItem('auth')+'/'+lastActive}).
        success(function(data, status, headers, config) {
            if(data.new < 1){
                $scope.newcount = data.new
            }else{
                $scope.newcount = data.new
            }
        }).error(function(data, status, headers, config) {
            $cordovaToast.showShortTop("are you connected to the internet?").then(function(success) {

            }, function (error) {
                alert("are you connected to the internet?");
            });
        }); 
    }else{
        console.log('lastst online: unkown');
    }
}

function onPause() {
    var now = new Date();
    var year =   now.getFullYear();
    var month =   now.getMonth() + 1;
    var days =   now.getDate();
    var hours =   now.getHours() + 1;
    var minutes =   now.getMinutes();
    var seconds =   now.getSeconds();
    var now = year + '-' + month + '-' + days + ' ' + hours + ':' + minutes + ':' + seconds; 

    window.localStorage.setItem('lastActive',now);
    window.localStorage.setItem('lastActivejs',new Date());
}

now when the app get’s closed and restarted, the ionicplatform.ready function get’s fired again to set the last active date since I can’t set one on close. i’m sure someone else had to deal with this and would like to know how you tackled it.