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House3272
House3272

Reputation: 1037

Node not using local timezone on Debian Jenny

-Current default time zone: 'US/Pacific-New'
-Local time and UTC all look good.
-$date gives PDT just fine.

but new Date in Node still gives UTC time?
new Date().getTimezoneOffset() correctly gives 420 though

I thought Node used local time for new Date operations just like the browsers, but I keep getting 2016-10-20T05:07:45.341Z which is UTC time?

(node ver 6.7.0)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 37

Answers (1)

Matt Johnson-Pint
Matt Johnson-Pint

Reputation: 241593

The Date object stores time in milliseconds since the Unix epoch (without leap seconds). This is the value you see when you call .getTime() or .valueOf(). That is a purely UTC-based value, without any time zone.

Any string representation is the result of calls to toString, toISOString, etc. or implicit string conversion that occurs when logging to the debug console.

The implementations of the console debug output can vary across environments. Some will show a string in local time (Chrome, IE, Edge), and some will show a string in UTC (Node, FF).

If you want to see the local date/time in Node/FF without any libraries, call new Date().toString(). The output will be in local time.

Upvotes: 1

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