.toISOString()
Published Jun 2, 2022
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The .toISOString()
method returns a string representation of a date in an ISO 8601-compliant format according to universal time (UTC).
Syntax
date.toISOString();
The string returned from the .toISOString()
method will always be 24 or 27 characters long such as YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.sssZ
or ±YYYYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.sssZ
, respectively.
Example
In the example below, today’s date is declared and stored in a variable. It is then invoked against the .toISOString()
method:
const today = new Date();console.log(today.toISOString());
The snippet above will output something similar to the following:
2022-04-22T18:12:21.369Z
Codebyte Example
The following example further demonstrates how the .toISOString()
method is used:
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