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Temporal.PlainTime.prototype.add()

Limited availability

This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

The add() method of Temporal.PlainTime instances returns a new Temporal.PlainTime object representing this time moved forward by a given duration (in a form convertible by Temporal.Duration.from()), wrapping around the clock if necessary.

Syntax

add(duration)

Parameters

duration

A string, an object, or a Temporal.Duration instance representing a duration to add to this time. It is converted to a Temporal.Duration object using the same algorithm as Temporal.Duration.from().

Return value

A new Temporal.PlainTime object representing the time specified by the original PlainTime, plus the duration. Any units above hours are ignored, and if the time goes past midnight, it wraps around to the next day.

Adding a duration is equivalent to subtracting its negation.

Examples

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Adding a duration

const start = Temporal.PlainTime.from("12:34:56");
const end = start.add({ hours: 1, minutes: 30 });
console.log(end.toString()); // 14:04:56

const end2 = start.add({ hours: -1, minutes: -30 });
console.log(end2.toString()); // 11:04:56

const distance = Temporal.PlainTime.from("00:00:00").until("01:23:45"); // 1h 23m 45s
const end3 = start.add(distance);
console.log(end3.toString()); // 13:58:41

Time wrapping

If the time goes past midnight, it wraps around to the next day:

const start = Temporal.PlainTime.from("12:34:56");
const end = start.add({ hours: 12 });
console.log(end.toString()); // 00:34:56

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile Server
Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android WebView on iOS Bun Deno Node.js
add 144 144 139 No preview 144 139 No No No 144 No ? 1.40 No

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Temporal/PlainTime/add