java.time.Instant.getEpochSecond() Method Example

Description

The java.time.Instant.getEpochSecond() method gets the number of seconds from the Java epoch of 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z.

Declaration

Following is the declaration for java.time.Instant.getEpochSecond() method.

public long getEpochSecond()

Return Value

the seconds from the epoch of 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z.

Example

The following example shows the usage of java.time.Instant.getEpochSecond() method.

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.time.Instant;

public class InstantDemo {
   public static void main(String[] args) {

      Instant instant = Instant.parse("2017-03-03T10:37:30.00Z");
      System.out.println(instant.getEpochSecond());
   }
}

Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result −

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