Temporal.Now.instant()
Limited availability
This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.
Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.
The Temporal.Now.instant() static method returns the current time as a Temporal.Instant object.
Syntax
js
Temporal.Now.instant()
Parameters
None.
Return value
A Temporal.Instant object representing the current time, with potentially reduced precision.
Examples
Measuring time elapsed
The following example measures two instants in time and calculates the duration between them, and gets the total duration in milliseconds:
js
const start = Temporal.Now.instant();
// Do something that takes time
const end = Temporal.Now.instant();
const duration = end.since(start);
console.log(duration.total("milliseconds"));
Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| Temporal proposal # sec-temporal.now.instant |
Browser compatibility
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