I got timestamp utc of new york from weather api, want to display current time in New York but it gives output something like this 'UTC Sun Dec 01 2019 05:00:00 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)'.
See the code for reference
// Code 1
//I get timestamp_utc when console.log(data)
//timestamp_utc: "2019-12-01T05:00:00"
const utc = new Date(data.timestamp_utc)
console.log('UTC', utc)
// UTC Sun Dec 01 2019 05:00:00 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)
// Code 2
// Another code for getting current time but, failed
var usaTime = new Date().toLocaleString("en-US", {timeZone: timezone}); // Here timezone is from props
console.log('USA time: '+usaTime) // USA time: 12/1/2019, 4:59:58 AM
I also have timezone data getting from weather API. My aim is to get current time based on timezone or utc timestamp. As you can see both my trials are unsuccessful. Expected output is 6:39 PM which is now current time in New York. Is there any good solution?
Let me start with your 'code 2'. This is the same as what you wrote but with the timezone filled in...
const timezone = "America/New_York";
const usaTime = new Date().toLocaleString( "en-US", { timeZone: timezone});
console.log( 'usaTime =', usaTime );
For me this works. I get the current time in NY formatted correctly for USA. I'm not sure why yours did not work but I wonder what you specified for the timezone string.
I also a bit puzzled by your 'Code 1'. The 'new Date()' that you created is being converted to a string and then printed by your console.log statement, but this should result in a ISO 8601 string and you seem to be getting a locale string (the date format).
Though the example string you gave is in ISO 8601 format, it is not explicitly UTC because it does not end with a Z, nor does it end with a time zone offset such as +00:00. Thus when you parse it with the Date constructor, it is interpreted as local time. You can fix this by adding the Z yourself (assuming the timestamp_utc field is consistently a string in that format):
// timestamp_utc: "2019-12-01T05:00:00"
const utc = new Date(data.timestamp_utc + 'Z'); // adding the Z forces parsing as UTC
Now you have a Date object. However, if you just pass it to console.log, the output you see is implementation dependent. You will either see the local time in the same format you'd get by calling toString, or you will see the UTC time in the same format you'd get by calling toISOString.
To get the time in a different time zone, now you can call toLocaleString and pass the timeZone option. This assumes that the time zone is a valid IANA time zone identifier, and that the environment where the code is running fully supports the time zone features of the ECMAScript Internationalization Specification (ECMA-402). This is indeed the case with most modern browsers, but you will not get correct output in older browsers such as Internet Explorer.
const usEasternTime = utc.toLocaleString("en-US", {timeZone: 'America/New_York'});
Lastly from your variable name usaTime, I think perhaps you might be under the assumption that the US has a single time zone, but it does not. You will need to pass the correct time zone identifier. See the list on Wikipedia.
Define the time zones of origin ($ sourceDate) and destination (to convert).
$sourceTimeZone = 'utc';
$targetTimeZone = 'America/Bogota';
Separate the components of the date of origin that is in the format ‘m / d / y h: m: s’.
list($month, $day, $year, $hours, $minutes, $seconds) = sscanf($sourceDate, "%d/%d/%d %d:%d:%f");
Build the DateTime object indicating the date and time zone in which it is located.
$datetime = new DateTime("{$year}-{$month}-{$day} {$hours}:{$minutes}:{$seconds}",
new DateTimeZone($sourceTimeZone));
Modify the time zone of the DateTime to the destination time zone.
$datetime -> setTimezone(new DateTimeZone($targetTimeZone));
Get the components of the new date with the modified time zone.
list($month2, $day2, $year2, $hours2, $minutes2, $seconds2) = sscanf($datetime -> format(‘m/d/Y H:i:s’), “%d/%d/%d %d:%d:%f”);
Show the dates.
echo "En {$sourceTimeZone}: {$day}/{$month}/{$year} {$hours}:{$minutes}:{$seconds}<br/>";
echo "En {$targetTimeZone}: {$day2}/{$month2}/{$year2} {$hours2}:{$minutes2}:{$seconds2}<br/>";
PD: For JavaScript this can help you Convert time to different timezone with jQuery
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I have a date I want to convert based on their timezone.
For example, I want to set it in EST time (America/New_York)
2019-04-24 12:00:00
and if the user comes across the site from America/Los_Angeles, it will appear:
2019-04-24 09:00:00
I need to be able to return the hour, so in that example: 9.
I tried using https://github.com/iansinnott/jstz to determine their timezone and https://moment.github.io/luxon in hopes of handling the conversion w/o any luck.
I was testing by changing the timezone on my computer w/o any luck.
It sounds like you're asking to convert from a specific time zone to the user's local time zone (whatever it may be). You do not need time zone detection for that, but at present you do need a library. (Answers that suggest using toLocaleString with a time zone parameter are incorrect, as that function converts to a specific time zone, but cannot go the other direction.)
Since you mentioned Luxon, I'll provide a Luxon specific answer:
luxon.DateTime.fromFormat('2019-04-24 12:00:00', // the input string
'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss', // the format of the input string
{ zone: 'America/New_York'}) // the time zone of the input
.toLocal() // convert to the user's local time
.toFormat('yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss') // return a string in the same format
//=> "2019-04-24 09:00:00"
This capability is also provided by other libraries, such as date-fns-timezone, js-Joda, or Moment-Timezone, but it is not yet something built in to JavaScript.
Converting date based on the time can be done like this. reference convert date to another time zone example snippet is under.
var usaTime = new Date().toLocaleString("en-US", {timeZone: "America/New_York"});
usaTime = new Date(usaTime);
console.log('USA time: '+usaTime.toLocaleString())
var usaTime = new Date().toLocaleString("en-US", {timeZone: "America/Los_Angeles"});
usaTime = new Date(usaTime);
console.log('USA time: '+usaTime.toLocaleString())
You could keep a list of timzeone identifiers and a list of their corresponding +/- number of hours with respect to your local time (which is returned by your time function).
Once you have a user's time zone, and you have extracted the current hour from the local timestamp simply look up the timezone in your list and use it's index to access the second list to find how many hours to add or subtract from the users time.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/toLocaleString
var date = new Date(Date.UTC(2012, 11, 12, 3, 0, 0));
// toLocaleString() without arguments depends on the implementation,
// the default locale, and the default time zone
console.log(date.toLocaleString());
// → "12/11/2012, 7:00:00 PM" if run in en-US locale with time zone America/Los_Angeles
Or you can use getYear, getMonth, getDate, getHours, getMinutes, getSeconds to format your own representation of the date. These methods all return values according to the user's local timezone.
I think the question may need more clarification - my first impression was you refer to a date-time that you already have and serve from the server. Doesn't this problem boil down to the Date object being "user-timezone-aware"? or not? But it is (some methods are, to be exact)
Your date/time is 2019-04-24 12:00:00 EDT (i assume P.M.)
This means the Unix timestamp of this in milliseconds is 1556121600000
(i assume daylight is on for April so not pure EST but EDT and an offset of UTC-4:00)
When you call
console.log(new Date(1556121600000).getHours())
doesn't this return 9 as you suggest, for Javascript executed on a browser from America/Los_Angeles with PDT timezone?
As suggested at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/getHours :
The getHours() method returns the hour for the specified date,
according to local time.
I am providing dates two to my script in this format: 2016-05-25 12:30:02. However, JavaScript is setting the each date to a different GMT offset. I formatted the dates to match the suggested answer here and added the function provided, but I got the same results as shown below so I reverted back to my original script shown below.
var response = JSON.parse(jsonResponse);
var lastExportedOrderData = response.lastExportedOrder;
/* currentDateTime = '2016-05-25 12:30:02'; */
var currentDateTime = new Date(response.scriptExecutionTime);
/* lastOrderExportedAt = '2016-01-12 16:53:56'; */
var lastOrderExportedAt = new Date(lastExportedOrderData.exported_at);
currentDateTime Results: 2016-05-25 12:30:02 -> Wed May 25 2016 12:30:02 GMT-0400 (EDT)
lastOrderExportedAt Results: 2016-01-12 16:53:56 > Tue Jan 12 2016 16:53:56 GMT-0500 (EST)
I don't really care about the timezone so long as the dates are in the same timezone.
Update
My dates are now being input using the ISO-8601 Standard format but my the problem remains. 2016-05-25T14:04:00-05:00 results as GMT-0400 where 2016-01-12T16:53:56-05:00 results as GMT -0500
They're in the same timezone (U.S. Eastern). The difference is that the one in May is during Daylight Savings Time and thus is Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), and the one in January isn't, and thus is in Eastern Standard Time.
It's important to note that their underlying time values (e.g., as from dt.getTime()) are unaffected by timezone, and as both dates have been parsed (in your example) as local time, they can reliably be compared. You'd only run into an issue comparing them if one were parsed as local time and the other as UTC.
Side note: You're relying on new Date to parse those strings, which means you're relying on unspecified behavior that may vary from JavaScript engine to JavaScript engine. The only string format engines are required to support is a simplified version of ISO-8601, which those strings are not in. In particular, it's entirely possible that one browser's JavaScript engine will decide to parse them as though they were in UTC and another engine's browser will decide (as yours seems to have done) to parse them as local time.
You haven't said what timezone the strings are meant to be interpreted in, but if (for instance) they were meant to be UTC, you can fairly easily change them to be in ISO-8601 format by replacing the space between the date and time with a T, and adding a Z to the end:
str = str.replace(" ", "T") + "Z";
The resulting string, for instance "2016-05-25T12:30:02Z", is valid for new Date on any modern JavaScript engine (so, not IE8).
Alternately, if you know what timezone offset they should be interpreted in (say, GMT-05:00), you can replace the space with T and add a timezone offset to the end:
str = str.replace(" ", "T") + "-05:00";
That string (for instance, "2016-05-25T12:30:02-05:00") is also valid for new Date.
Alternately, get the parts of them:
var parts = /^(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2}) (\d{2}):(\d{2}):(\d{2})$/.exec(str);
...and build the date/time yourself
// As local time
var dt = new Date(
+parts[1], // Year
+parts[2] - 1, // Month (0 = January)
+parts[3], // Day
+parts[4], // Hour
+parts[5], // Minute
+parts[6] // Second
);
or
// As UTC
var dt = new Date(Date.UTC(
+parts[1], // Year
+parts[2] - 1, // Month (0 = January)
+parts[3], // Day
+parts[4], // Hour
+parts[5], // Minute
+parts[6] // Second
));
The unary + on the above coerces from string to number. (It isn't strictly necessary, though, both new Date and Date.UTC do it for you.)
Just to add to TJ's answer, in implementations consistent with ES5 and later, the string 2016-05-25T14:04:00 will be parsed as a "local" time as it doesn't have a time zone offset. (In an ES2015-compliant browser. Sadly in the previous specification, they got that wrong and made it default to UTC, and currently Chrome implements the ES5 spec [UTC] but Firefox implements the ES2015 spec [local time].) But don't rely on that, parse the string per TJ's answer.
When creating a local time value, the host time zone settings are taking in to consideration. It seems that the host system is set for EST/EDT.
EDT starts at 02:00 on the second Sunday in March, so on 2016-01-12 US Eastern Standard Time (EST) applies which has an offset of -0500. For 2016-05-25, US Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) is used which has an offset of -0400.
Note that the actual time value of the Date created for 2016-05-25T12:30:02-0400 is for 2016-05-25T16:30:02Z (i.e. the equivalent UTC time). When displayed, the date's toString method is called which applies the host system offset for that time and date to adjust the displayed value to "local" time.
Date's use UTC internally so that they can be displayed in any time zone and still represent the same instant in time.
on my UI, I try to display a date based on a specific timezone. In this example, I will use Americas/New_York as the timezone. This is how I did it.
$scope.getStartTime = function(){
var date = new Date();
return moment(date).tz("Americas/New_York").format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss');
};
Afterwards, I want to send this data and send it to my server. In my server however, I want it so that it is always serialized into UTC time instead of in the New York Timezone (EST).
For example, if the time was 12:00 P.M. in New York, then the time would be serialized to 4:00 P.M. in UTC time before it was sent to the backend. This was my attempt:
var date = getStartTime();
....
// Display the date in the UI
....
$scope.revertStartTime(date);
$scope.revertStartTime = function(startTime) {
console.log("Start time: ", startTime);
console.log("Moment: ", moment(startTime).format());
console.log("Converted to utc time: ", moment().utc(startTime).format());
return moment.utc(startTime).format("YYYY-MM-DD'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ");
}
I tried to revert the start time by using the moment().utc() function and hoped that the date would change to a UTC based date but unfortunately it keeps turning my date into the localized date instead of UTC date and I'm not sure why. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
Edit:
Tried to follow the below method and here is what I did:
$scope.getStartTime = function(){
var date = new Date();
var startTime = new moment(date).tz($rootScope.userinfo.timeZone).format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss');
$rootScope.offset = moment().utcOffset(startTime);
console.log("offset: ", $rootScope.offset);
return startTime;
};
$scope.revertStartTime = function(startTime) {
console.log("User Selected Time: ", moment().utcOffset(startTime).format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss'));
return moment().utcOffset(startTime).format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss');
}
But all I get is an error saying that revertStartTime returns an Invalid Date.
A few things:
Hoping it's a typo, but just to point out, the zone ID is America/New_York, not Americas/New_York.
You can pass a value as moment.utc(foo), or moment(foo).utc(), but not moment().utc(foo). The difference is that one interprets the input as UTC and stays in UTC mode, while they other just switches to UTC mode. You can also think of this as "converting to UTC", but really the underlying timestamp value doesn't change.
Yes, you can switch to UTC mode and call format, but you can also just call .toISOString() regardless of what mode you're in. That's already in the ISO format you're looking for.
Note that if you start with a unique point in time, and you end with converting to UTC, no amount of switching time zones or offsets in the middle will change the result. In other words, these are all equivalent:
moment().toISOString()
moment.utc().toISOString()
moment(new Date()).toISOString()
moment.utc(new Date()).toISOString()
moment(new Date()).utc().toISOString()
moment().tz('America/New_York').toISOString()
moment.tz('America/New_York').toISOString()
moment().utcOffset(1234).toISOString()
moment.utc().format('YYYY-MM-DD[T]HH:mm:ss.SSS[Z]')
moment().utc().format('YYYY-MM-DD[T]HH:mm:ss.SSS[Z]')
Only the last two even need to be in UTC mode, because the format function would produce different output if in local mode or in a particular time zone.
In order to accomplish this you'd want to use .utcOffset(). It is the preferred method as of Moment 2.9.0. This function uses the real offset from UTC, not the reverse offset (e.g., -240 for New York during DST). Offset strings like "+0400" work the same as before:
// always "2013-05-23 00:55"
moment(1369266934311).utcOffset(60).format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm')
moment(1369266934311).utcOffset('+0100').format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm')
The older .zone() as a setter was deprecated in Moment.js 2.9.0. It accepted a string containing a timezone identifier (e.g., "-0400" or "-04:00" for -4 hours) or a number representing minutes behind UTC (e.g., 240 for New York during DST).
// always "2013-05-23 00:55"
moment(1369266934311).zone(-60).format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm')
moment(1369266934311).zone('+0100').format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm')
To work with named timezones instead of numeric offsets, include Moment Timezone and use .tz() instead:
// determines the correct offset for America/Phoenix at the given moment
// always "2013-05-22 16:55"
moment(1369266934311).tz('America/Phoenix').format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm')
I have a requirement to convert a UTC time local time based on user timezone
I have two parameters utc time and users timezone as a string
ie
0,1,2,3 ...12 (timezone)
0,-1,-2,-3 ...-12 (timezone)
var utc = "2014-10-18T06:14:41.512Z"
tz = 5.5(Indian Standard Time)
Expected result Sat Oct 18 2014 11:44:28 GMT+0530
I have tried moment js
moment("2014-10-18T06:14:41.512Z").zone('+05:30').format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm')
and the result is correct.
But when i change the timezone to other it is not showing as expected result
tried
moment("2014-10-18T06:14:41.512Z").zone('+12:00').format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm')
result "2014-10-18 18:14" Expected 2014-10-18 19:18
12 is NewZeland timezone. Please help me to solve this issue. Thank you
Check this
var date = new Date('2014-10-19 17:00:34 UTC');
date.toString();
var timezone = "America/New_York";
var utcDate = "2014-10-19T10:31:59.0537721Z";
var localDate = moment.utc(utcDate).tz(timezone).format()
Also check
http://www.digitoffee.com/programming/get-local-time-utc-using-moment-js/94/
To adhere to international standards, you need to format your UTC date to include the time delimiter T, and the zone designator Z.
Z is the timezone designator for the zero UTC offset aka Zulu time.
You can read more about the International Date Standard ISO8601 format specifics here.
Once you've conformed to the international standard, the cross browser friendly approach is simple:
new Date('2014-10-19T17:00:34Z');
// Sun Oct 19 2014 12:00:34 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time)
A time zone is not an offset. An offset is only part of a time zone. Many time zones alternate between two different offsets to account for daylight saving time. The time zone has to account for this, including the specific dates and times that daylight saving time begins and ends, as well as any history of changes that the time zone may have had.
The New Zealand case you gave is a perfect example. You said "12 is New Zealand timezone", and thus expected since New Zealand is in DST for that date that the conversion from 6:14 UTC to New Zealand local time would be 19:14. - 13 hours later.
But 12 doesn't fully represent New Zealand. It is just a 12 hour offset from UTC. There are plenty of other time zones that use the same offset in different ways. For example, the Marshal Islands use UTC+12 year round, without daylight saving time.
You should really read the timezone tag wiki - especially the section titled "Time Zone != Offset".
Instead of offsets, you should represent time zones with their full IANA identifier from the tz database. For example US Eastern Time is "America/New_York", Indian Time is "Asia/Kolkata", and New Zealand Time is "Pacific/Auckland". You can find more in the list on Wikipedia.
You can use moment-timezone to work with these in JavaScript.
moment("2014-10-18T06:14:41.512Z").tz('Pacific/Auckland').format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm')
// Output: "2014-10-18 19:14"
I also cover these topics in great detail in my Date and Time Fundamentals course on Pluralsight.com.
Please Check this link
http://www.digitoffee.com/programming/get-local-time-utc-using-moment-js/94/
var timezone = "UTC+5.30";
var utcDate = "2014-10-19T10:31:59.0537721Z";
var localDate = moment.utc(utcDate).tz(timezone).format()
I have this backend that sends me a pre formatted time in a set time zone, but without any information for the said time zone. The strings are like: "2013-08-26 16:55:00".
I can create a new moment.js instance with this string:
var time = moment("2013-08-26 16:55:00") //this creates time in my tz
but this will only create an instance in my own time zone.
Moment.js have a plugin that can create instances of the object in specific time zones and it works great, but I can't say what time I want the object to point to.
If I'm in New York and I do this:
var time = moment("2013-08-26 16:55:00").tz("America/Los_Angeles");
the resulting time will be 13:55 instead of 16:55 but in LA.
What I want is to create an instance that will say 16:55, but in LA time.
The reason I'm asking is because I want to do this:
var now = moment.tz("America/Los_Angeles");
var end = moment("2013-08-26 16:55:00"); //plus something to convert LA time
var timeLeft = end.diff(now, "minutes");
Is there a way to do that?
In most cases, you can simply do this:
moment.tz("2013-08-26 16:55:00", "America/Los_Angeles")
If you require input other than ISO8601, then specify the format string as the second parameter, and the time zone as the third:
moment.tz("8/26/2013 4:55 pm", "M/D/YYYY h:mm a", "America/Los_Angeles")
And if you need to use moment's "strict parsing" mode, then that goes in the third parameter, and the time zone moves to the fourth position:
moment.tz("8/26/2013 4:55 pm", "M/D/YYYY h:mm a", true, "America/Los_Angeles")
If you want to calculate everything in a specific timezone you want to set the default time zone using
A) moment.tz.setDefault("America/Los_Angeles");
For my use case (in a node.js project) I just set it right after requiring the moment modules like so:
let moment = require('moment');
require('moment-timezone');
moment.tz.setDefault("America/Los_Angeles");
All calls to moment() thereafter will create the time in the "America/Los_Angeles" setting, which is NOT the same as using:
B) moment.tz("2017-03-04 00:00", "America/Los_Angeles")
OR
C) moment("2017-03-04 00:00").tz("America/Los_Angeles")
both of which would create the moment object in UTC time (unless you already changed the default), and then convert it to be the Los Angeles timezone.
Running B or C above in the browser console yields:
_d: Fri Mar 03 2017 16:00:00 GMT-0800 (PST)
_i: "2017-3-4 00:00"
Notice _d shows March 3 4:00pm; this is because the moment object is created with March 4 12:00am in UTC time, then converted to Pacific timezone, which is 8 hours behind/the previous day.
source: http://momentjs.com/timezone/docs/#/using-timezones/default-timezone/
install moment-timezone
> npm install moment-timezone
Or see https://momentjs.com/timezone/docs/
.tz(string, string)
moment.tz("2020-01-02 13:33:37", "Iran/Tehran")
Just to make something abundantly clear, that is implied in other answers but not really stated:
You absolutely must either
use ISO8601 as your date format or
specify the format your string is in
.. when using the .tz(string datetime, [string format,] string zone) function, if you want moment to interpret the datetime argument you give to be in the zone you give. If you omit format, be sure to pass an ISO8601 formatted string
For 2 days I went round in circles, because my API was delivering a time string like "03 Feb 2021 15:00" and sure, it parsed OK, but it always used the timezone from my local machine, then converted to the timezone I gave:
//this always resulted in "2021-02-03 10:00 EST" if run on a machine in UTC
moment.tz("03 Feb 2021 15:00", "America/Indianapolis").format("YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm z")
This was massively confusing: the parsing was clearly working fine, because the date was right but the time was always wrong by however many hours there were between the machine and the given zone string
Switching to ISO format input worked:
//this always resulted in "2021-02-03 15:00 EST" if run on a machine in UTC
moment.tz("2021-02-03 15:00", "America/Indianapolis").format("YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm z")
As did declaring:
//this always resulted in "2021-02-03 15:00 EST" if run on a machine in UTC
moment.tz("03 Feb 2021 15:00", "DD MMM YYYY HH:mm", "America/Indianapolis").format("YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm z")
I hope this saves someone some time
I had a similar issue for which i had to use New York based time so i had to consider for daylight savings. I tried using the above few answers but wasn't able to get it working. Then I solved my issue like the below code
import moment from 'moment-timezone'
const time = timestamp
const offset = moment.tz.zone('America/New_York')?.parse(time)
const date = moment(time).add(offset, 'minutes').toISOString()
or you can do this way which will consider the time offset on its own when you display locally.
const time = moment.tz(timestamp, 'America/New_York')
const localtz = moment.tz.guess()
const date = time.clone().tz(localtz)
this gives you an ISO string which you can use as below
moment(date).local().format('dddd, MMM DD YYYY, hh:mm A')
or in whatever format you would like to display it