I am located in the PDT timezone. When I type in new Date() into the browser's console, I get Tue Aug 31 2021 09:43:15 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time).
Now, I want the date in the same format from the central time region.
So I want the time object to look like this: Aug 31 2021 11:43:15 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time)
I've been reading the docs about Intl, Intl.DateTimeFormat() and toLocalTimeString() but can't seem to find it.
I tried new Date().toLocaleString(undefined, { timeZone: "US/Central" }) which gives me "8/31/2021, 11:46:30 AM", which is correct but not the right format.
I tried new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', { dateStyle: 'full', timeStyle: 'long', timeZone:"US/Central" }).format(new Date()) which also gives me a string and not a date object in UTC format.
What am I doing wrong?
Date in JS is a tricky issue - I agree 100% with you:
I did it once the hard way:
Maybe not the most elegant way, but it worked. Any suggestions from other contributors are very welcome.
Edit:
Added let oTZPartsReduced = ... in reply to valuable comment from @RobG
let myTimeZone = new Date();
console.log(myTimeZone);
//console.log((myTimeZone.getTimezoneOffset()/60).toFixed(2));
// oTZ = otherTimeZone (to keep it short)
let oTZ = new Date(myTimeZone).toLocaleString("en-US", {timeZone: "US/Central"});
let oTZFormatted;
let oTZParts = new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en', {
weekday: 'short',
day:'2-digit',
month: 'short',
year: 'numeric',
hour: '2-digit',
minute: '2-digit',
second: '2-digit',
timeZone: 'US/Central' // <-- here it goes, your wished timeZone
}).formatToParts(new Date(myTimeZone));
oTZFormatted = oTZParts[2].value + ' ' + oTZParts[4].value + ' '+ oTZParts[6].value + ' '+ oTZParts[8].value + ':'+ oTZParts[10].value + ':'+ oTZParts[12].value + ' GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time)';
// order within above array could vary due to language as @RobG stated - thanks
// hence following reduced version of above array:
let oTZPartsReduced = oTZParts.reduce((acc, part) => {
if (part.type != 'literal') {
acc[part.type] = part.value;
}
return acc;
}, Object.create(null));
oTZFormatted = oTZPartsReduced.month + ' ' + oTZPartsReduced.day + ' '+ oTZPartsReduced.year + ' '+ oTZPartsReduced.hour + ':'+ oTZPartsReduced.minute + ':'+ oTZPartsReduced.second + ' GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time)';
console.log(oTZFormatted);
console.log('Array of Parts for reference:');
console.log(oTZParts);
console.log('Object (reduced) of Parts for reference:');
console.log(oTZPartsReduced);