Mocking dates in AngularJS / Jasmine tests

Question

I have a directive that initializes the Date object several times in several functions. When Unit testing the individual functions I can handle stubbing the date like this:

Answer 1

angular.mock.TzDate would a better native alternative here. this comes as a helper from angular mocks and truly safe guard your test from the system timezone or any other dependencies

https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ngMock/type/angular.mock.TzDate

this plays well with Jasmine or mocha