I see a lot in the Moment.js documentation about getting a Moment from a Unix timestamp. However, I am trying to convert a Moment to a Unix timestamp, and I am not sure how to do that. This is how my moment looks:

const myMomentObject = moment(str_time, 'YYYY-MM-DD');

And I need to convert it to a Unix timestamp.

I see a lot in the Moment.js documentation about getting a Moment from a Unix timestamp. However, I am trying to convert a Moment to a Unix timestamp, and I am not sure how to do that. This is how my moment looks:

const myMomentObject = moment(str_time, 'YYYY-MM-DD');

And I need to convert it to a Unix timestamp.

• javascript
• momentjs

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• Did you try doing moment('str_time', "YYYY-MM-DD").unix() ? – thisdotutkarsh Commented Oct 16, 2021 at 5:31
• 1 Just remember: the moment.js documentation also says to stop using it, because time passed it by =) – Mike 'Pomax' Kamermans Commented Oct 16, 2021 at 5:50

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Unix timestamp can be obtaineded with or without the moment library.

//Moment
const myMomentObject = moment('2021-10-16', 'YYYY-MM-DD');
console.log(myMomentObject.unix());


//Vanilla
const d = new Date('2021.10.16');
console.log(d.getTime() / 1000);

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare./ajax/libs/moment.js/2.29.1/moment.min.js"></script>

Call unix() on moment object. Reference.

moment('2020-12-12').unix()

To create a Unix timestamp (seconds since the Unix Epoch) from a moment, use the following,

console.log(moment('2021-10-16').unix());

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare./ajax/libs/moment.js/2.29.1/moment.min.js"></script>

Since your date format follows the ISO_8601 format, i.e. YYYY-MM-DD you do not need to provide the input date format to the moment constructor.