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JavaScript ISO date with local timezone

1 minute read #javascript #dev #solved

It seems JS has until today no native (!) solution to get an ISO 8601 date & time string in the local time zone (it’s always in UTC). (Super weird, but okay).

I updated the solution on Stackoverflow a bit using “new” ES2017 functionality like this:

function getISOLocalString() {
  let date = new Date();
  let tzo = -date.getTimezoneOffset();

  if (tzo === 0) {

    return date.toISOString();

  } else {

    let dif = tzo >= 0 ? '+' : '-';
    let pad = function(num, digits=2) {
      return String(num).padStart(digits, "0");
    };

    return date.getFullYear() +
      '-' + pad(date.getMonth() + 1) +
      '-' + pad(date.getDate()) +
      'T' + pad(date.getHours()) +
      ':' + pad(date.getMinutes()) +
      ':' + pad(date.getSeconds()) +
      dif + pad(tzo / 60) +
      ':' + pad(tzo % 60) +
      '.' + pad(date.getMilliseconds(), 3);

  }
}

console.log(getISOLocalString());