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

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:

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

	Desktop					Mobile						Server
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Opera	Safari	Chrome Android	Firefox for Android	Opera Android	Safari on IOS	Samsung Internet	WebView Android	Deno	Node.js
`instant`	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	1.40	No