Instant getEpochSecond() example

Description

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

Syntax

getEpochSecond has the following syntax.

public long getEpochSecond()

Example

The following example shows how to use getEpochSecond.

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

The code above generates the following result.