Java Date Time - Instant toEpochMilli() example

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

Syntax

toEpochMilli has the following syntax.

public long toEpochMilli()

Example

The following example shows how to use toEpochMilli.

import java.time.Instant;

public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    Instant instant = Instant.parse("2014-12-03T10:15:30.00Z");
    System.out.println(instant.toEpochMilli());
 
  }
}

The code above generates the following result.

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