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Aalbin Tom
Aalbin Tom

Reputation: 13

Sat Apr 01 2023 00:00:00 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time) when converting using toISOString() function geting previous day as output why?

const currentDate = new Date();
const lastMonthStartDate = new Date(
  currentDate.getFullYear(),
  currentDate.getMonth() - 1,
  1
);
const lastMonthEndDate = new Date(
  currentDate.getFullYear(),
  currentDate.getMonth(),
  0
);
from = lastMonthStartDate.toISOString().split("T")[0];
to = lastMonthEndDate.toISOString().split("T")[0];
console.log(lastMonthStartDate, lastMonthEndDate);
console.log(from,"last month" ,to);

while executing this I am getting
1st log ---->Sat Apr 01 2023 00:00:00 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time) Sun Apr 30 2023 00:00:00 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time) 2nd log----> 2023-03-31 last month 2023-04-29

while executing this I want
1st log ---->Sat Apr 01 2023 00:00:00 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time) Sun Apr 30 2023 00:00:00 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time) 2nd log----> 2023-04-01 last month 2023-04-30

Upvotes: -2

Views: 5760

Answers (2)

Stephen Quan
Stephen Quan

Reputation: 25936

The reason you have the issue is that new Date(year, month, day) generates a time in your local time zone. Your time zone is, currently, India Time Zone which is GMT+0530. Which means your are ahead of UTC by 5 and a half hours.

One way to think about it is if it's midnight in India, it will be 7:30 PM the day before in the United Kingdom. The problem arises because when you use new Date() it creates a date in India Time, but, when you use toISOString() it displays the time in UTC. So for you, the ISO (UTC) appears yesterday. For those people running your program in a region that's behind UTC (e.g. United States) they will appear to get the correct result.

You have several choices for rectifying the problem. One is to make sure all your date operations are in UTC:

const currentDate = new Date();
const lastMonthStartDate = new Date(Date.UTC(
    currentDate.getUTCFullYear(),
    currentDate.getUTCMonth() - 1,
    1
));
const lastMonthEndDate = new Date(Date.UTC(
    currentDate.getUTCFullYear(),
    currentDate.getUTCMonth(),
    0
));
from = lastMonthStartDate.toISOString().split("T")[0];
to = lastMonthEndDate.toISOString().split("T")[0];
console.log(lastMonthStartDate, lastMonthEndDate);
console.log(from,"last month" ,to);

Else, you need to rewrite your Javascript to be completely in local time and avoid using any UTC time at all:

const currentDate = new Date();
const lastMonthStartDate = new Date(
    currentDate.getFullYear(),
    currentDate.getMonth() - 1,
    1
);
const lastMonthEndDate = new Date(
    currentDate.getFullYear(),
    currentDate.getMonth(),
    0
);
console.log("Start: ", lastMonthStartDate.toString());
console.log("End: ", lastMonthEndDate.toString());

Upvotes: 0

Hetal N
Hetal N

Reputation: 334

Try running this code,

   

const currentDate = new Date();
const lastMonthStartDate = new Date(
  currentDate.getFullYear(),
  currentDate.getMonth() - 1,
  2
);

const lastMonthEndDate = new Date(
  currentDate.getFullYear(),
  currentDate.getMonth(),
  1
);
  
from = lastMonthStartDate.toISOString().split("T")[0];
to = lastMonthEndDate.toISOString().split("T")[0];
console.log(lastMonthStartDate, lastMonthEndDate);
console.log(from, "last month", to);

Upvotes: 0

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