[just Want the Timezone string] I am just trying to get a string that reports the current Time zone offset aka "+1000" or "+1100" I have already resorted to a function and this is not making sense, I suddenly have offsett of -600, yet a time stamp returned is displaying +1000 which is correct. T…

const date = new Date() const offsetInMinutes = date.getTimezoneOffset() const hours = Math.abs(Math.floor(offsetInMinutes / 60)) const minutes = Math.abs(offsetInMinutes % 60) const offsetString = (offsetInMinutes >= 0 ? "-" : "+") + hours.toString().padStart(2, '0…

Your server is suppose to give you your local time. if ( !msg.timestamp ) msg.timestamp = Math.round(+ new Date()); var dt = new Date(msg.timestamp); msg = { 'month': dt.getMonth() + 1, 'day': dt.getDate(), 'year': dt.getFullYear(), 'hours': dt.getHours(), 'mins': dt.getMinutes(), 'ms…

Hum! my home server does give me the local time like any other PCs.

[image] ebolisa: my home server does give me the local time like any other PCs. Show us what you are seeing and how you are fetching it.

My code shown above gets the local time from my Rpi. Perhaps. I'm missing something here.

Do you mean the code msg.time = new Date().getTime() For me that returns the number of milliseconds since The Beginning (which is UTC).

No. As shown in my msg: if ( !msg.timestamp ) msg.timestamp = Math.round(+ new Date());

[image] ebolisa: Math.round(+ new Date()); What does this give you in a function node? msg.payload = Math.round(+ new Date()); return msg; The reason you are getting local time from such functions as Date.getHours() is because the definition of those functions is specifically to give you th…

Epoch (UTC in seconds) time. Anyway, I'm not the one who's requesting help on this thread :wink:

[image] ebolisa: Hum! my home server does give me the local time like any other PCs. As I often say to people, you are much better off working in UTC except for where someone inputs a time or needs to see a time. It avoids soooo many processing issues.

I just want it to return a string with the current Timezone offsett

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TotallyInformation 10 April 2024 10:17 4

???

Mostly, servers should give you UTC, not local time.

getTimezoneOffset returns the number of minutes difference between UTC and local time. Not the timezone itself.

This should give you the timezone:

Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().timeZone

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I just want it to return a string with the current Timezone offsett

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