How to Create a Date without Timezone in JavaScript

# Create a Date without Timezone using JavaScript

To create a date without timezone:

1. Get the ISO representation of the date string.
2. Remove the Z character from the end of the ISO string.
3. Pass the result to the Date() constructor.

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const dateStr = '2022-07-21T09:35:31.820Z';

const date = new Date(dateStr);
console.log(date); // 👉️ Thu Jul 21 2022 12:35:31 GMT+0300

const result = new Date(date.toISOString().slice(0, -1));
console.log(result); // 👉️ Thu Jul 21 2022 09:35:31 GMT+0300

We passed the date string to the Date() constructor to get a Date object.

To create a Date without the timezone, we called the toISOString() method on the Date object and removed the character Z from the ISO string.

The Date object shows the exact same time as the one stored in the dateStr variable - 09:35:31.

The toISOString method returns an ISO 8601 formatted string that represents the given date.

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const dateStr = '2022-07-21T09:35:31.820Z';

const date = new Date(dateStr);
console.log(date); // 👉️ Thu Jul 21 2022 12:35:31 GMT+0300

// 👇️ "2022-07-21T09:35:31.820Z"
console.log(date.toISOString());

The ISO string is formatted as YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.sssZ.

The Z at the end of the ISO string means UTC, in other words, an offset from UTC of zero hours, minutes and seconds.

# Additional Resources

You can learn more about the related topics by checking out the following tutorials:

• Get the Time Zone Name or Abbreviation using JavaScript
• How to initialize JavaScript Date to a Particular Time Zone
• Convert a Date to another Time Zone using JavaScript
• How to generate a random Date in JavaScript
• How to set the default timezone in Node.js