# Node Red time setting
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-time-setting/19463
**Category:** General
**Created:** [22 December 2019 14:31 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-time-setting/19463 "2019-12-22T14:31:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@ajocius](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ajocius)
#### Post date: [22 December 2019 14:31 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-time-setting/19463/1 "2019-12-22T14:31:29Z")
I have one hour difference between local time and the one I get 
I have set timezone to Europe/Oslo
I have also added line
> process.env.TZ = "Europe/Oslo";
> into settings.js file
I see that RaspberryPi shows correct time. I use node-red to receive message from mqtt server. Message only contains temp and humidity values, no time in message payload. I then show temp and humidity with time on a dashboard and can see that time is always by 1 hour different.
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### Author:  [@ajocius](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ajocius)
#### Post date: [22 December 2019 14:48 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-time-setting/19463/2 "2019-12-22T14:48:40Z")
This could also be driven by the function I use to get time:
```auto
msg.payload=new Date().toISOString()
return msg;
```
Is there any way to make it output correct time?
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [22 December 2019 15:30 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-time-setting/19463/3 "2019-12-22T15:30:05Z")
That is the correct time, the Z means that it is the time in UTC. If you lookup the JavaScript date functions you will find methods that will give you a string to display it in the local timezone.
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### Author:  [@ajocius](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ajocius)
#### Post date: [22 December 2019 15:44 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-time-setting/19463/4 "2019-12-22T15:44:18Z")
> [@Colin](#):
>
> JavaScript date functions
thank you for advice!
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### Author:  [@ajocius](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ajocius)
#### Post date: [22 December 2019 15:57 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-time-setting/19463/5 "2019-12-22T15:57:31Z")
have redone code based to following :
> var d = new Date();
> msg.payload=d
> return msg;
And then added debug node and text box on dashboard where msg.payload is used for both.
Debug window shows data as I want it to be:
> 12/22/2019, 4:51:03 PM[node: c9fd5127.9a9dd](http://ajocius.mooo.com:7360/#)IG\_back\_DHT22 : msg.payload : Date
>
> "Sun Dec 22 2019 16:51:04 GMT+0100 (CET)"
However dashboard still shows value with Z at the end and with one hour diff.
How this can be when same msg.payload is used for both. How can I get correct time on my dashboard?
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [22 December 2019 21:48 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-time-setting/19463/6 "2019-12-22T21:48:29Z")
As I said before those are both correct.15:51 UTC is the same time as 16:51 GMT+1. What you are asking is how to display that time in one format rather than the other.
One way to do that would be to feed it into a node-red-contrib-moment node to generate the particular format you want.
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### Author:  [@afelix](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/afelix)
#### Post date: [22 December 2019 23:01 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-time-setting/19463/7 "2019-12-22T23:01:59Z")
Take a look at [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global\_Objects/Date/toLocaleString](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/toLocaleString) too, it might do what you’re looking for.