Java Instant getEpochSecond() method

The getEpochSecond() method of Java Instant class is used to get the number of seconds from the Java epoch of 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The epoch second count is a simple incrementing count of seconds where second 0 is 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z. The nanosecond part of the day is returned by getNano().

Syntax

Parameters

No parameters.

Return

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

Example 1

import java.time.Instant;

public class InstantgetEpochExample1 {
   public static void main(String[] args) {

      Instant instant = Instant.parse("2018-07-19T10:37:30.00Z");
      System.out.println(instant.getEpochSecond());
   }
}

Output:

The output will be like this.