JS: how to get current datetime?

Question

simple problem:

When I try this on console:

new Date('2018', '01', '08')

I get this output

Date 2018-02-07T13:00:00.000Z

How to get it to the date I just set? like 2018-01-08T00:00:00?

Thanks a lot

As mentioned in Christian's answer, month is zero-based. Other than that, it actually is showing the date that you requested, it's just showing it in UTC time. For more information on the Javascript date object, I recommend this excellent post in an older question https://stackoverflow.com/a/15171030/3415209 — Daniel Bernsons, Jan 08 '18 at 06:18
I see the post, but I cant convert into a specific timezone.. it has to be the user visiting. so it should just show output the system time — Raheel Hasan, Jan 08 '18 at 06:22
@RaheelHasan try using moment.js for your datetime object. It is an excellent library for such kind of manipulations — Varun Sharma, Jan 08 '18 at 06:23
@RasheelHasan I understand, I was just trying to point you in the direction of some background on how the Date object works. I'm guessing you're in a timezone similar to Sydney, Australia - +11 UTC. `2018-01-07T13:00:00.000Z` is exactly the same as `2018-01-08T00:00:00.000` in the UTC+11 timezone. — Daniel Bernsons, Jan 08 '18 at 06:32

Christian Santos · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-08T06:26:54.687

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The month parameter in the Date constructor is 0-based, meaning the months start from 0, not 1.

To get January as your date, you need to set month to 0:

new Date('2018', '0', '08')

For UTC, you can use Date.UTC to specify that the year, month and day are in UTC:

new Date(Date.UTC("2018", "0", "1"))

edited Jan 08 '18 at 06:26

answered Jan 08 '18 at 06:15

Christian Santos

new Date('2018', '0', '08') = `Date 2018-01-07T13:00:00.000Z` – Raheel Hasan Jan 08 '18 at 06:19

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 08 '18 at 22:17

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Apart from the answer above by Christian, you can do the following to get current local time:

new Date(new Date()+'utc');

answered Jan 08 '18 at 22:17

Raheel Hasan

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