Create a Date with a set timezone without using a string representation

Question

I have a web page with three dropdowns for day, month and year. If I use the JavaScript Date constructor that takes numbers, then I get a Date obje

Answer 1

This code will return your Date object formatted with the browser timezone.

Date.prototype.timezone = function () {
    this.setHours(this.getHours() + (new Date().getTimezoneOffset() / 60));
    return this;
}

Edit:

To avoid to pollute the Date API, the above function can be transformed into a utility function. The function takes a Date object, and returns a mutated Date object.

function setTimeZone(date) {
    date.setHours(date.getHours() + (new Date().getTimezoneOffset() / 60));
    return date;
}

Answer 2

I used the timezone-js package.

var timezoneJS  = require('timezone-js');
var tzdata = require('tzdata');

createDate(dateObj) {
    if ( dateObj == null ) {
        return null;
    }
    var nativeTimezoneOffset = new Date().getTimezoneOffset();
    var offset = this.getTimeZoneOffset();

    // use the native Date object if the timezone matches
    if ( offset == -1 * nativeTimezoneOffset ) {
        return dateObj;
    }

    this.loadTimeZones();

    // FIXME: it would be better if timezoneJS.Date was an instanceof of Date
    //        tried jquery $.extend
    //        added hack to Fiterpickr to look for Dater.getTime instead of "d instanceof Date"
    return new timezoneJS.Date(dateObj,this.getTimeZoneName());
},

Answer 3

any mileage in

var d = new Date(xiYear, xiMonth, xiDate).toLocaleString();

Answer 4

This worked for me. Not sure if it is a good idea though.

var myDate = new Date();
console.log('myDate:', myDate);   // myDate: "2018-04-04T01:09:38.112Z"

var offset = '+5';  // e.g. if the timeZone is -5

var MyDateWithOffset = new Date( myDate.toGMTString() + offset );   

console.log('MyDateWithOffset:', MyDateWithOffset); // myDateWithOffset: "2018-04-03T20:09:38.000Z"

Answer 5

I know this is old but if it helps you could use moment and moment time zone. If you haven't seen them take a look.

http://momentjs.com/timezone/

http://momentjs.com/

two really handy time manipulation libraries.