Why does Date#getHours() return hour + 1?

Question

This is my code:

var feedDataTimestamp = new Date(\"2014-01-14T00:04:40+0000\").getTime();
var parsedDate = new Date(+feedDataTimestamp);
alert(parsedDate.ge         


        

Answer 1

Because you (according to your Stackoverflow profile) are in Italy, so your time zone is UTC+1.

The time stamp you are inputting is UTC+0.

parsedDate will be in local time.

Use the getUTCHours() method if you want to get UTC time instead of local time.

Answer 2

You set the timezone in the parsed string as +0000 so you seem to want the hours in UTC, use

alert(parsedDate.getUTCHours())