new Date() vs Date() and why does it return a different time (-2 hours)?

Question

I have these 2 console logs, but they return different times (-2 hours off).

console.log(new Date()) // Date 2015-04-20T15:37:23.000Z
console.log(Date()) //          


        

Answer 1

Those are the same time. The string generated by Date() just uses a different timezone, as can be seen from the GMT+0200 (CEST) suffix.

So if you need your time string in your local timezone, just use .toString() instead of .toUTCString().