JavaScript Date toJSON()

Example

Get a date as a string, formatted as a JSON date:

const d = new Date();
let text = d.toJSON();
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Description

The toJSON() method returns a date object as a string, formatted as a JSON date.

JSON dates have the same format as the ISO-8601 standard: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.sssZ


Browser Support

toJSON() is an ECMAScript5 (ES5) feature.

ES5 (JavaScript 2009) fully supported in all modern browsers since July 2013:

Chrome
23
IE/Edge
10
Firefox
21
Safari
6
Opera
15
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Syntax

Date.toJSON()

Parameters

None

Technical Details

Return Value: A String, representing the date and time formated as a JSON date
JavaScript Version: ECMAScript 5
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