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Asked: 2026-06-07T22:56:15+00:00

So now, its 9:23am. I have a UTC date string that represents the current

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So now, its 9:23am. I have a UTC date string that represents the current date, that looks like this "2012-07-17T09:23:27.75"

I want that in a date object, so I can display a nicely formatted date, so I:

var myDate = new Date("2012-07-17T09:23:27.75")
// Gives --> Tue Jul 17 2012 10:23:27 GMT+0100 (GMT Daylight Time)

So because of daylight saving time I’m getting an hour-out issue. I can see that myDate.getTimezoneOffset() gives me -60, what’s the standard / best practice way to get my date to actually reflect the current correct time? Have I just entered javascript date hell?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try momentjs.com. I really found it handy for such things.

    var myDate = moment("2012-07-17T09:23:27.75");

    Gives you a date instance in your timezone (that basically configured on your computer). Moreover momentjs has nice human friendly formattings like “a couple of seconds ago”, “a month ago”,…

    Dates are really a hell in JS (but not only in JS). The best thing you can do is to always only transport in UTC between browser <-> server. Then on the server convert it to what time format you like, you obviously only have to be consistent. That way I managed to handle date-times properly.

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