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SeaDude
SeaDude

Reputation: 4405

How to capture UTC instead of local time in VS Code timestamp snippet?

So I've now got this great timestamp inside a code snippet in VS Code.

Full snippet:

"Frontmatter":{
        "prefix": "sqFront",
        "body": [
            "---",
            "title: $1",
            "permalink: $2",
            "description: $3",
            "date: ${CURRENT_YEAR}-${CURRENT_MONTH}-${CURRENT_DATE}T${CURRENT_HOUR}:${CURRENT_MINUTE}:${CURRENT_SECOND}Z",
            "tags:",
              "- $0",
            "---"
        ]
    }

How do I set the snippet to capture UTC time instead of my local time?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 801

Answers (1)

rioV8
rioV8

Reputation: 28783

You can use the HyperSnips extension:

Define the following snippet in the language.hsnips file or in all.hsnips file if you want to have it many file types

snippet sqFront "Frontmatter" b
---
title: $1
permalink: $2
description: $3
date: `` d = new Date();
twodigit = n => n.toString().padStart(2,'0');
rv = `${d.getUTCFullYear()}-${twodigit(d.getUTCMonth()+1)}-${twodigit(d.getUTCDate())}T${twodigit(d.getUTCHours())}:${twodigit(d.getUTCMinutes())}:${twodigit(d.getUTCSeconds())}Z` ``
tags:
- $0
---
endsnippet

Upvotes: 1

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