java.time.Instant.toEpochMilli() Method Example

Description

The java.time.Instant.toEpochMilli() method converts this instant to the number of milliseconds from the epoch of 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z.

Declaration

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

public long toEpochMilli()

Return Value

the number of milliseconds since the epoch of 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z.

Exceptions

ArithmeticException − if numeric overflow occurs.

Example

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

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.time.Instant;

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

      Instant instant = Instant.parse("2014-12-03T10:15:30.00Z");
      System.out.println(instant.toEpochMilli());
   }
}

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

1417601730000