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james33  
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 More options Apr 9 2012, 12:49 am
From: james33 <jame...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2012 21:49:14 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Mon, Apr 9 2012 12:49 am
Subject: Date object not returning the correct locale time
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I'm running node 0.6.14 on a Joyent machine (OS is a varient of Solaris).
The timezone is set to US/Central, but the Date object in node doesn't seem
to recognize this. Below are the outputs of a few different console.logs:

*process.env.TZ*: 'US/Central'

*new Date()*: 'Mon, 09 Apr 2012 04:45:28 GMT'

*new Date().toLocaleString()*: 'Mon Apr 09 2012 05:45:28 GMT+0100 (CST)'

The current US/Central time is actually 'Sun Apr 08 2012 23:45:28 GMT -0500
(CDT)'. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?


 
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Matt Patenaude  
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 More options Apr 9 2012, 1:07 am
From: Matt Patenaude <m...@mattpatenaude.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 01:07:45 -0400
Local: Mon, Apr 9 2012 1:07 am
Subject: Re: [nodejs] Date object not returning the correct locale time
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Hmm, European CST is GMT+1, it could be using that instead (in spite of the US/ bit there). Try changing to (for example) 'America/Chicago' and see if you get different results?

-Matt

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 More options Apr 9 2012, 1:56 pm
From: james33 <jame...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 10:56:38 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: [nodejs] Date object not returning the correct locale time
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I still get the same result.


 
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Matt Patenaude  
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 More options Apr 9 2012, 2:08 pm
From: Matt Patenaude <m...@mattpatenaude.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 14:08:03 -0400
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Subject: Re: [nodejs] Date object not returning the correct locale time
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And what if you pick a completely different timezone, e.g., America/Los_Angeles?

-Matt

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 More options Apr 9 2012, 2:32 pm
From: james33 <jame...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 11:32:58 -0700 (PDT)
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I get GMT+0100 (PST) with that.


 
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Matt Patenaude  
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 More options Apr 9 2012, 5:58 pm
From: Matt Patenaude <m...@mattpatenaude.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 17:58:37 -0400
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Subject: Re: [nodejs] Date object not returning the correct locale time
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Just to make sure environmental variables aren't getting messed with somehow, try running this:

        echo "console.log((new Date()).toLocaleString());" | TZ='America/Los_Angeles' node

Should print out a locale string at GMT-0700 (PDT). If it doesn't, then I'd defer to someone else who's more knowledgeable about the internals of Node's Date object than myself. :)

-Matt

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 More options Apr 9 2012, 6:02 pm
From: james33 <jame...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 15:02:02 -0700 (PDT)
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It returns Mon Apr 09 2012 23:01:04 GMT+0100 (PST)


 
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 More options Apr 9 2012, 7:34 pm
From: Ben Noordhuis <i...@bnoordhuis.nl>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 01:34:33 +0200
Local: Mon, Apr 9 2012 7:34 pm
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On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 00:02, james33 <jame...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It returns Mon Apr 09 2012 23:01:04 GMT+0100 (PST)

You should report this to V8 because I'm 99% sure it's a bug. To wit,
this is the V8 shell on a Linux or OS X system:

  $ TZ='America/Los_Angeles' out/ia32.release/shell -e 'print(new
Date().getTimezoneOffset())'
  420
  $ TZ='Europe/Amsterdam' out/ia32.release/shell -e 'print(new
Date().getTimezoneOffset())'
  -120

And this is on a Solaris system:

  $ TZ='America/Los_Angeles' out/ia32.release/shell -e 'print(new
Date().getTimezoneOffset())'
  -60
  $ TZ='Europe/Amsterdam' out/ia32.release/shell -e 'print(new
Date().getTimezoneOffset())'
  -60

If I have some time to kill, I'll look into fixing it myself.


 
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 More options Apr 9 2012, 10:41 pm
From: james33 <jame...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 19:41:11 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Mon, Apr 9 2012 10:41 pm
Subject: Re: [nodejs] Date object not returning the correct locale time
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Thanks, I've added the issue here:
http://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=2064&thanks=2064&ts=1334...


 
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