# UTC to IST time

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/utc-to-ist-time/73948>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [20 January 2023 10:22 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/utc-to-ist-time/73948 "2023-01-20T10:22:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jhankhana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/35a633/32.png) [@Jhankhana](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Jhankhana)\
**Post date:** [20 January 2023 10:22 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/utc-to-ist-time/73948/1 "2023-01-20T10:22:46Z")

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I want to display Current time according to IST. I have done plus 5 in hours and 30 in min. but It's not the solution as it will do +5 when time is 23 also and +30 when min is already 60.  
Pleas guide me with this.

I am trying to pass on date and time in different column of the table.

```auto
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**Author:** ![E1cid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/e1cid/32/77971_2.png) [@E1cid](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/E1cid)\
**Post date:** [20 January 2023 11:10 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/utc-to-ist-time/73948/2 "2023-01-20T11:10:03Z")

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You can use setHours() and setMinutes()  
e.g

```auto
const dateUTC = new Date();
let day = dateUTC.getDate();
let month =dateUTC.getMonth() + 1;
let year = dateUTC.getFullYear();

//date shifting for IST timezone (+5 hours and 30 minutes)
dateUTC.setHours(dateUTC.getHours() + 5);
dateUTC.setMinutes(dateUTC.getMinutes() + 30);
let hour = dateUTC.getHours();
let min= dateUTC.getMinutes();
let sec = dateUTC.getSeconds();

let printdate = `${day}-${month}-${year}`;
let printtime = `${hour}:${min}:${sec}`; 

msg.payload = [
    {
        "Date": printdate,  
        "Time": printtime,
    },
  ];
  return msg;

```

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**Author:** ![TotallyInformation](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/totallyinformation/32/31_2.png) [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)\
**Post date:** [20 January 2023 14:01 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/utc-to-ist-time/73948/3 "2023-01-20T14:01:54Z")

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You should not do timezone calculations manually. They will almost certainly fail for certain edge-cases.

Either use Moment which is available in a contrib node or within JSONata (e.g. the change or function nodes) or grab a reference to node.js's `INTL` library which is a JavaScript standard (see MDN for details).

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [3 February 2023 14:02 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/utc-to-ist-time/73948/4 "2023-02-03T14:02:49Z")

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