Javascript Date parsing returning strange results in Chrome

Question

I observed some strange Date behaviour in Chrome (Version 74.0.3729.131 (Official Build) (64-bit)). Following javascript was executed in the Chrome Dev Console:

Answer 1

This might be the case when all browsers follow their own standards for encoding date formats (but I am not sure on this part). Anyways a simple fix for this is to apply the toISOString method.

const today = new Date();
console.log(today.toISOString());