How do I get the time of day in javascript/Node.js?

Question

I want to get 1 to 24, 1 being 1am Pacific Time.

How can I get that number in Node.JS?

I want to know what time it is in Pacific time right

Answer 1

You should checkout the Date object.

In particular, you can look at the getHours() method for the Date object.

getHours() return the time from 0 - 23, so make sure to deal with it accordingly. I think 0-23 is a bit more intuitive since military time runs from 0 - 23, but it's up to you.

With that in mind, the code would be something along the lines of:

var date = new Date();
var current_hour = date.getHours();