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hretic
hretic

Reputation: 1075

Date().toLocaleString() output format is different on the live server and localhost

in my nodejs app i need date in the Y-m-d H:i:s format , i use this simple code 

console.log(new Date().toLocaleString());

in the local computer i get

2019-1-8 04:14:28 which is the correct format but the same code in the live server gives me 1/8/2019, 4:14:00 AM which is not what i want .... why is that and how can i fix that ?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4091

Answers (2)

celicoo
celicoo

Reputation: 1118

From MDN web docs:

The toLocaleString() method returns a string with a language sensitive representation of this date. The new locales and options arguments let applications specify the language whose formatting conventions should be used and customize the behavior of the function. In older implementations, which ignore the locales and options arguments, the locale used and the form of the string returned are entirely implementation dependent.

Example:

var event = new Date(Date.UTC(2012, 11, 20, 3, 0, 0));

// British English uses day-month-year order and 24-hour time without AM/PM
console.log(event.toLocaleString('en-GB', { timeZone: 'UTC' }));
// expected output: 20/12/2012, 03:00:00

// Korean uses year-month-day order and 12-hour time with AM/PM
console.log(event.toLocaleString('ko-KR', { timeZone: 'UTC' }));
// expected output: 2012. 12. 20. 오전 3:00:00

You are not passing the location parameter to toLocaleString, so the current location will be used. You see a different output on your machine vs. remote server because they are physically located in different countries.

Upvotes: 4

kRiZ
kRiZ

Reputation: 815

You can use moment.js for date and time manipulations.

moment("2010-10-20 4:30:12",  "YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss");   // parsed as 4:30:12 local time
moment("2010-10-20 4:30 +0000", "YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm Z"); // parsed as 4:30 UTC

More info can be found at the Moment String Format.

Upvotes: 0

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