# Temporal.PlainDateTime — Instance methods

> {{jsxref("Temporal/PlainDateTime/add", "Temporal.PlainDateTime.prototype.add()")}} : Returns a new Temporal.PlainDateTime object representing this date-time moved forward by a given duration (in a form convertible by {{jsxref("Temporal/Duration/from", "Temporal.Duration.from()")}}).

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{{jsxref("Temporal/PlainDateTime/add", "Temporal.PlainDateTime.prototype.add()")}} : Returns a new Temporal.PlainDateTime object representing this date-time moved forward by a given duration (in a form convertible by {{jsxref("Temporal/Duration/from", "Temporal.Duration.from()")}}). {{jsxref("Temporal/PlainDateTime/equals", "Temporal.PlainDateTime.prototype.equals()")}} : Returns true if this date-time is equivalent in value to another date-time (in a form convertible by {{jsxref("Temporal/PlainDateTime/from", "Temporal.PlainDateTime.from()")}}), and false otherwise. They are compared both by their date and time values and their calendars, so two date-times from different calendars may be considered equal by {{jsxref("Temporal/PlainDateTime/compare", "Temporal.PlainDateTime.compare()")}} but not by equals(). {{jsxref("Temporal/PlainDateTime/round", "Temporal.PlainDateTime.prototype.round()")}} : Returns a new Temporal.PlainDateTime object representing this date-time rounded to the given unit. {{jsxref("Temporal/PlainDateTime/since", "Temporal.PlainDateTime.prototype.since()")}} : Returns a new {{jsxref("Temporal.Duration")}} object representing the duration from another date-time (in a form convertible by {{jsxref("Temporal/PlainDateTime/from", "Temporal.PlainDateTime.from()")}}) to this date-time. The duration is positive if the other date-time is before this date-time, and negative if after. {{jsxref("Temporal/PlainDateTime/subtract", "Temporal.PlainDateTime.prototype.subtract()")}} : Returns a new Temporal.PlainDateTime object representing this date-time moved backward by a given duration (in a form convertible by {{jsxref("Temporal/Duration/from", "Temporal.Duration.from()")}}). {{jsxref("Temporal/PlainDateTime/toJSON", "Temporal.PlainDateTime.prototype.toJSON()")}} : Returns a string representing this date-time in the same RFC 9557 format as calling {{jsxref("Temporal/PlainDateTime/toString", "toString()")}}. Intended to be implicitly called by {{jsxref("JSON.stringify()")}}. {{jsxref("Temporal/PlainDateTime/toLocaleString", "Temporal.PlainDateTime.prototype.toLocaleString()")}} : Returns a string with a language-sensitive representation of this date-time. …

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