![]() ![]() new Date('T00:00') Date created in Local Time vsl. When you include time, you need to write the HH and mm at a minimum (or Google Chrome returns an invalid date). If you want to create a date in Local Time with the date-string method, you need to include the time. This is why people who live in areas behind GMT get a 10th June instead of 11th June. In the above scenario, when you write new Date(''), you actually create a date that says 11th June, 2019, 12am UTC. ![]() This happens because the date-string method has a peculiar behavior: If you create a date (without specifying time), you get a date set in UTC. new Date('') produces 11th June if you’re in a place after GMT. If you live in an area that’s ahead of GMT, you’ll get a date that says 11th June. new Date('') produces 10th June if you’re in a place behind GMT. If you live in an area that’s behind GMT, you’ll get a date that says 10th June. You can spot the problem if you console.log this date. There’s a huge problem with creating dates with date strings. So, if you want to create a date for 11th June 2019, you can write this: new Date('') Hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds are optional if you’re creating a date. If Z is not present, it’ll be Local Time. Z: If Z is present, date will be set to UTC.MM: 2-digit month (where January is 01 and December is 12).One of these formats is the ISO 8601 Extended format. In JavaScript, if you want to use a date string, you need to use a format that’s accepted worldwide. But you can’t be sure which one I’m referring to, unless you know the date system I’m using. We interpret date strings differently in different parts of the world. Yeah? But if you write 21-03-1988 in JavaScript, you get Invalid Date. ![]() If I write 21-03-1988, you have no problems deducing it’s 21st of March, 1988. This is natural because we’ve been using date strings all our lives. We tend towards the date-string method when we write dates. In the date-string method, you create a date by passing a date-string into new Date. There are four possible ways to use new Date(): With this, we can talk about creating dates. UTC is synonymous with Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) in practice.īy default, almost every date method in JavaScript (except one) gives you a date/time in local time.Local time refers to the timezone your computer is in.In JavaScript, we only care about two-Local Time and Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC). There are hundreds of timezones in our world. In this article, I’ll walk you through everything you need to know about the Date object.įirst, let’s acknowledge the existence of timezones. Date can actually be quite simple if you know what to watch out for. It gets on our nerves so much that we reach for libraries (like Date-fns and Moment) the moment (ha!) we need to work with date and time.īut we don’t always need to use libraries. ![]()
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