New Date() and New Date(string) not using the same timezone

Asked Dec 09 '21 at 15:06

Active Dec 09 '21 at 16:40

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In JavaScript, why does those two lines of code use different time zone?

new Date("09/12/2021 15:00:03 UTC")

Returns Sun Sep 12 2021 11:00:03 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)

new Date()

Returns Sun Sep 12 2021 10:00:03 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)

Why are they not both on GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)???

The lines are one after the other in code, so they are run by the same server.

Thanks.

-- EDIT --

I tried with ISO format and the timezone is still wrong.

new Date("2021-09-12T16:34:14.000Z")

And the output is Sun Sep 12 2021 12:34:14 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)

edited Dec 09 '21 at 16:40

asked Dec 09 '21 at 15:06

LolCat

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`"09/12/2021 15:00:03 UTC"` is not a standard format for the `Date` constructor. It leads to implementation-dependent behaviour. – VLAZ Dec 09 '21 at 15:09
@VLAZ What should the format be? – LolCat Dec 09 '21 at 15:10
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[What are valid Date Time Strings in JavaScript?](https://stackoverflow.com/q/51715259) – VLAZ Dec 09 '21 at 15:11

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