JSON Stringify changes time of date because of UTC

javascript json datetime utc
mark smith picture mark smith · Sep 28, 2009 · Viewed 109.8k times · Source

My date objects in JavaScript are always represented by UTC +2 because of where I am located. Hence like this

Mon Sep 28 10:00:00 UTC+0200 2009

Problem is doing a JSON.stringify converts the above date to 

2009-09-28T08:00:00Z  (notice 2 hours missing i.e. 8 instead of 10)

What I need is for the date and time to be honoured but it's not, hence it should be

2009-09-28T10:00:00Z  (this is how it should be)

Basically I use this:

var jsonData = JSON.stringify(jsonObject);

I tried passing a replacer parameter (second parameter on stringify) but the problem is that the value has already been processed.

I also tried using toString() and toUTCString() on the date object, but these don't give me what I want either..

Can anyone help me?

Answer

Anatoliy picture Anatoliy · Sep 28, 2009

Recently I have run into the same issue. And it was resolved using the following code:

x = new Date();
let hoursDiff = x.getHours() - x.getTimezoneOffset() / 60;
let minutesDiff = (x.getHours() - x.getTimezoneOffset()) % 60;
x.setHours(hoursDiff);
x.setMinutes(minutesDiff);

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