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How to get the difference in miliseconds between two Timestamps which are of different timezone in Javascript

i wanted to get the difference of two timestamps of different timezone in javascript:
var firstTime ="2017-07-21 04:34:21";
var timeZone1:"+0100";
var secondTime ="2017-07-21 04:36:27";
var timeZone2:"+0124";
How we can get the difference in miliseconds ?

Convert your strings into ISO 8601 formats. These generally work well in JavaScript Date constructors. Then simply subtract one from the other
var firstTime ="2017-07-21T04:34:21";
var timeZone1 = "+01:00";
var secondTime = "2017-07-21T04:36:27";
var timeZone2 = "+01:24";
const firstDate = new Date(firstTime + timeZone1)
const secondDate = new Date(secondTime + timeZone2)
console.log('firstDate', firstDate)
console.log('secondDate', secondDate)
console.info('diff', firstDate - secondDate)

you can use moment.js (https://momentjs.com/) for get the current timestamp from different time zone.
But don´t forget : "Time Zone != Offset"
https://stackoverflow.com/tags/timezone/info
Another good example:
Get timezone difference in hours with moment

How to get the Australian Time Zone using Javascript? (Not JQuery)

I am trying to help a friend to get the Australian Time Zone for the University Assignment and finding difficulty.
Could someone point us in the right direction?
Thank you!
<script>
function Timezone() {
var x = new Date();
var currentTimeZoneOffsetInHours = x.getTimezoneOffset() / 60;
document.getElementById("add").innerHTML = currentTimeZoneOffsetInHours;
}
</script>
<p id="add"></p>

You simply use
let AuDate = new Date().toLocaleString("en-US", {timeZone: "Australia/Sydney"});

By looking at your code, looks like you are trying to get the current date and time of an Australian timezone. Lets say you want Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST) and you want the date displayed how they would in Australia DD-MM-YYYY then do the following:
var timestamp_UTC = new Date();
var readable_timestamp_AEST = timestamp_UTC.toLocaleDateString("en-AU", {timeZone: "Australia/Sydney"}).replace(/\//g, "-") + ' ' + somestamp.toLocaleTimeString("en-AU", {timeZone: "Australia/Sydney"});
"en-AU" is the locales argument which tells the toLocalDateString to display the date as DD-MM-YYYY and the second argument is for options (timeZone is just one such possible option). Info about toLocalDateString function can be found here https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/toLocaleDateString
Here is some information about the Date() function https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date
Hope this clears up a few things around getting times and dates from the Date() function.

I think i understand what you mean. But before that i'd like to make 2 points:
1: The Timezone() function should be called somewhere.
<script>
function Timezone() {
var x = new Date();
var currentTimeZoneOffsetInHours = x.getTimezoneOffset() / 60;
document.getElementById("add").innerHTML = currentTimeZoneOffsetInHours;
}
Timezone();
</script>
2: The convention usually is that methods start with a lower case letter. Maybe updateTimezone() would be more appropriate.
Your question can be interpreted in 2 ways now:
you want your timezone's offset in hours and for this the code above should work. getTimezoneOffset() is the way to go.
you want a human readable name of your timezone, as you can see on my site currentmillis.com (in my case it says GTB Summer). You can look in my source code to see how i achieve this:
var s = date.toString();
var iOfP = s.indexOf('('); // index of parenthesis
if (iOfP < 0) {
s = s.substring(s.lastIndexOf(' ') + 1);
} else {
s = s.substring(iOfP+1, s.length-1);
}
if (s.length > 4 && s.lastIndexOf(" Time") == s.length-5){
s = s.substring(0, s.length-5);
}
timezoneM.innerHTML = s;
This works because when you call toString() on the date the result should contain the full name of your timezone: w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_tostring_date.asp

Convert 1 AM PST to local time in JavaScript?

We have a system script that runs everyday at 1 AM PST. We have users around the world. We want to provide a simple web page that uses JavaScript to show 1 AM PST in the user's local timezone. For instance, a user in New York City should see 4 AM PST as the time the system script will run.
The PST time format is HH:MM DD.YYYY.
This only needs to work on mobile Safari.
What's the best way to do this?

The code would something like this:
alert(new Date(your_pst_server_time).toLocaleString());

You can use the .getUTCHours() and .getTimezoneOffset() methods of the new Date() object. For the ease of use, I attached this new function to that object. It will accept a parameter that specifies the time format that gets returned.
Date.prototype.getLocalTime = function (format){
var date = new Date();
var finalTime = ((date.getUTCHours()-2))-(((date.getTimezoneOffset())/60));
if (format+'' != '24'){
if (finalTime < 0){ finalTime = finalTime + 24 }
}
else {
if (finalTime > 12){ finalTime = (finalTime - 12)+" PM" }
else { finalTime += " AM" }
}
return finalTime.toString();
}
With my CET timezone, calling new Date().getLocalTime('24') will return "10" and calling new Date().getLocalTime() (without parameters or a parameter that isn't "24") will return "10 AM".
Time Conversion Site to check timezones

This function is a reasonable first start, but would not cope with countries like India which have a time offset of x.5 hours (x hours + 30mins). Unfortunately you cannot just divide by 60 like that.

creating date from a timestring in javascript

I am new to javascript and am trying to compare two date values ,I am getting two time value strings in the format
06:30:47 AM
01:10:47 PM
I need to compare these to find out if the first one is less than the other.I couldn't figure out how to do this in javascript.Can someone help?
o.h

I do not think that the standard implementation can parse this. I would do something like this:
function toDate(dateString) {
var timeComponents = dateString.replace(/\s.*$/, '').split(':');
if (dateString.indexOf("PM") > -1) {
timeComponents[0] += 12;
}
var date = new Date();
date.setHours(timeComponents[0]);
date.setMinutes(timeComponents[1]);
date.setSeconds(timeComponents[2]);
return date;
}
if (toDate('06:30:47 AM') > toDate('01:10:47 PM')) {
// ...
}

JavaScript's specified date/time parsing, what you can rely upon cross-browser, is surprisingly limited. For a long time, there was no single string date format that was mandated in the spec, and as of the recent 5th edition spec, the only mandated format is ISO-8601 (and some subsets). You can't yet rely on browsers having implemented that part of the 5th edition spec.
So you have a couple of choices:
Parse the string yourself and use the Date constructor that takes the individual parts of the date as numbers, e.g. new Date(year, month, day, hour, minute, second, ...). (You need only specify as many of those as you want, so for instance new Date(2010, 9, 14) is September 14th, 2010.)
Use a library like Moment that's already done the work for you. Moment lets you specify the format to parse.

Use the Date object. Check this: http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_obj_date.asp
Try putting the two values in Date variables and do this:
if(var1.valueOf() > var2.valueOf())
{
//Do Something
}

If your times are always in the format 00:00:00 AM then
var a="06:30:47 AM";
var b="01:10:47 PM";
var at=parseInt(a.substring(0,8).replace(/(^0+|:)/g,""));
var bt=parseInt(b.substring(0,8).replace(/(^0+|:)/g,""));
if (a.charAt(9)=="P") {at=at+120000};
if (b.charAt(9)=="P") {bt=bt+120000};
if (at<bt) {
// a is smaller
}
else
{
// a is not smaller
};
..should be cross-browser and time/format safe.

I tried something like this
var ts1="06:30:47 AM";
var ts2="01:10:47 PM";
var ds=new Date().toDateString();
var d1=new Date(ds+" "+ts1);
var d2=new Date(ds+" "+ts2);
if (!(d2>d1)){
alert("d1 should be less than d2");
}
Is there something wrong with this?

// specific formatter for the time format ##:##:## #M
var formatToMiliseconds = function(t){
t = t.split(/[:\s]/);
t = ((t[0] * 3600000) + (t[1] * 60000) * (t[2] * 1000)); // To ms
t = t + (/PM/i.test(t[3]) ? 43200000 : 0); // adjust for AM/PM
return t;
}
var time01 = formatToMiliseconds('06:30:47 AM');
var time02 = formatToMiliseconds('01:10:47 PM');
alert(time01 > time02); // false
allert(time01 < time02); // true
As a bonus, your time is now more compatible with the Date object and other time calculations.

How can I convert datetime microformat to local time in javascript?

I have a page that is currently using the datetime microformat to display a timestamp, but I have only been showing the human-readable time for my own time zone:
<abbr class="published" title="2009-01-09T09:16:00-05:00">
Friday, January 9, 2009 at 9:16 am (EST)</abbr>
What I'd like to do is rewrite the innerHTML for the abbr tag to be the same format, but in the user's local timezone. So for a reader in Seattle, the above should be converted to:
<abbr class="published" title="2009-01-09T09:16:00-05:00">
Friday, January 9, 2009 at 6:16 am (PST)</abbr>
I've looked at the Javascript Date object, which allows me to get the local timezone offset. But I have a few problems:
I don't see an easy way to create a new Date object from an ISO-8601 timestamp. (I suppose I could parse with substrings or regex if there's no faster way.)
I don't see a way to get the named abbreviation for the timezone. For example, for a reader in Seattle, I'd want the time to have "(PST)" appended to the end, otherwise it is not clear to that user that the timestamp has been converted (especially if he is a frequent visitor and has become accustomed to the fact that my times are in EST).

Here is code of mine that parses an ISO timestamp:
function isoDateStringToDate (datestr) {
if (! this.re) {
// The date in YYYY-MM-DD or YYYYMMDD format
var datere = "(\\d{4})-?(\\d{2})-?(\\d{2})";
// The time in HH:MM:SS[.uuuu] or HHMMSS[.uuuu] format
var timere = "(\\d{2}):?(\\d{2}):?(\\d{2}(?:\\.\\d+)?)";
// The timezone as Z or in +HH[:MM] or -HH[:MM] format
var tzre = "(Z|(?:\\+|-)\\d{2}(?:\\:\\d{2})?)?";
this.re = new RegExp("^" + datere + "[ T]" + timere + tzre + "$");
}
var matches = this.re.exec(datestr);
if (! matches)
return null;
var year = matches[1];
var month = matches[2] - 1;
var day = matches[3];
var hour = matches[4];
var minute = matches[5];
var second = Math.floor(matches[6]);
var ms = matches[6] - second;
var tz = matches[7];
var ms = 0;
var offset = 0;
if (tz && tz != "Z") {
var tzmatches = tz.match(/^(\+|-)(\d{2})(\:(\d{2}))$/);
if (tzmatches) {
offset = Number(tzmatches[2]) * 60 + Number(tzmatches[4]);
if (tzmatches[1] == "-")
offset = -offset;
}
}
offset *= 60 * 1000;
var dateval = Date.UTC(year, month, day, hour, minute, second, ms) - offset;
return new Date(dateval);
}
Unfortunately, it doesn't handle timezone abbreviations either. You would have to modify the "tzre" expression to accept letters, and the only solution I know of to deal with timezone abbreviations in Javascript is to have a look-up table which you keep up to date manually in the event of changes to regional daylight savings times.

EcmaScript formalized the addition of an ISO-8601 style string as an imput for a JavaScript date. Since most JS implementations don't support this, I created a wrapper to the Date object, that has this functionality. If you set the title tags to output in UTC/GMT/Z/Zulu offset, you can use my EcmaScript 5 extensions for JS's Date object.
For DateTime values that are to be used in client-side scripts, I generally try to always do the following. Store date+time in UTC zone (even in databases). Transmit date-times in UTC zone. From client to server, you can use the .toISOString() method in the above link. From server-to client this is relatively easy.
Via jQuery (with extension):
$('.published').each(function(){
var dtm = new Date(this.title);
if (!isNaN(dtm)) {
this.text(dtm.toString());
}
});
I don't recall if I added support for non-utc date-times in the input, but wouldn't be too hard to account for them.