Temporal.ZonedDateTime.prototype.toInstant()
Baseline Limited availability
This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.
The toInstant() method of Temporal.ZonedDateTime instances returns a new Temporal.Instant object representing the instant of this date-time.
Syntax
toInstant()
Parameters
None.
Return value
A new Temporal.Instant object representing the instant of this date-time.
Examples
Using toInstant()
const zdt = Temporal.ZonedDateTime.from( "2021-07-01T12:34:56.987654321-04:00[America/New_York]", ); const instant = zdt.toInstant(); console.log(instant.toString()); // 2021-07-01T16:34:56.987654321Z
Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| Temporal # sec-temporal.zoneddatetime.prototype.toinstant |
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 | |
toInstant |
144 |
144 |
139 |
128 |
preview |
144 |
139 |
95 |
No |
No |
144 |
No |
1.4.0 |
2.7 |
26.0.0 |
See also
Temporal.ZonedDateTimeTemporal.InstantTemporal.ZonedDateTime.prototype.toPlainDate()Temporal.ZonedDateTime.prototype.toPlainTime()Temporal.ZonedDateTime.prototype.toPlainDateTime()Temporal.Instant.prototype.toZonedDateTimeISO()
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Temporal/ZonedDateTime/toInstant