How to get UTC offset in javascript (analog of TimeZoneInfo.GetUtcOffset in C#)

Question

In C# you can use

System.TimeZone.CurrentTimeZone.GetUtcOffset(someDate).Hours 

But how can I get UTC offset in hours for a certain date (Date object) in javascript?

Answer 1

Vadim's answer might get you some decimal points after the division by 60; not all offsets are perfect multiples of 60 minutes. Here's what I'm using to format values for ISO 8601 strings:

function pad(value) {     return value < 10 ? '0' + value : value; } function createOffset(date) {     var sign = (date.getTimezoneOffset() > 0) ? "-" : "+";     var offset = Math.abs(date.getTimezoneOffset());     var hours = pad(Math.floor(offset / 60));     var minutes = pad(offset % 60);     return sign + hours + ":" + minutes; } 

This returns values like "+01:30" or "-05:00". You can extract the numeric values from my example if needed to do calculations.

Note that getTimezoneOffset() returns a the number of minutes difference from UTC, so that value appears to be opposite (negated) of what is needed for formats like ISO 8601. Hence why I used Math.abs() (which also helps with not getting negative minutes) and how I constructed the ternary.

Answer 2

I highly recommend using the moment.js library for time and date related Javascript code.

In which case you can get an ISO 8601 formatted UTC offset by running:

> moment().format("Z") > "-08:00"