try {
        // If this === Date.prototype or this is a Date instance created from
        // Object.create(Date.prototype), then the [[DateValue]] internal slot won't be set and will
        // lead to a TypeError. We instead treat it as though the [[DateValue]] internal slot is NaN
        // in order to be consistent with the ES5 behavior in MongoDB 3.2 and earlier.
        this.getTime();
    } catch (e) {
        if (e instanceof TypeError &&
            e.message.includes("Date.prototype.getTime called on incompatible")) {
            return new Date(NaN).tojson();
        }
        throw e;
    }