Temporal.PlainDateTime.prototype.era
Baseline Limited availability
This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.
The era accessor property of Temporal.PlainDateTime instances returns a calendar-specific lowercase string representing the era of this date, or undefined if the calendar does not use eras (e.g., ISO 8601). era and eraYear together uniquely identify a year in a calendar, in the same way that year does. It is calendar-dependent.
The set accessor of era is undefined. You cannot change this property directly. Use the with() method to create a new Temporal.PlainDateTime object with the desired new value.
For general information and more examples, see Temporal.PlainDate.prototype.era.
Examples
Using era
const dt = Temporal.PlainDateTime.from("2021-07-01"); // ISO 8601 calendar
console.log(dt.era); // undefined
const dt2 = Temporal.PlainDateTime.from("2021-07-01[u-ca=gregory]");
console.log(dt2.era); // ce
Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| Temporal # sec-get-temporal.plaindatetime.prototype.era |
Browser compatibility
| Desktop | Mobile | Server | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on iOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | Bun | Deno | Node.js | |
era |
144 |
144 |
139 |
128 |
preview |
144 |
139 |
95 |
No |
No |
144 |
No |
1.4.0 |
2.7 |
26.0.0 |
See also
Temporal.PlainDateTimeTemporal.PlainDateTime.prototype.with()Temporal.PlainDateTime.prototype.add()Temporal.PlainDateTime.prototype.subtract()Temporal.PlainDateTime.prototype.yearTemporal.PlainDateTime.prototype.eraYearTemporal.PlainDate.prototype.era
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Temporal/PlainDateTime/era