This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Abayomi Ogunnusi
I've faced a lot of obstacles while developing web apps, but I've never had to deal with time zone issues.
I decided to write this brief post to help anyone who might find themselves in the same situation.
The solution was discovered thanks to the help of a colleague.
After writing the logic for a service apartment booking app check site here, I discovered that the email was not sending the correct time in the booking receipt. I live in Africa, Nigeria to be precise yet the time zone supplied to the user after a successful booking was eastern standard time i.e the previous day to my current time. In my case:
Fri Dec 17 2021 to Sat Dec 18 2021 instead of Sat Dec 18 2021 to Sun Dec 19 2021
✅ The quick fix was:
const express = require('express');
const app = express();
const port = process.env.PORT || 4545
process.env.TZ ="Africa/Lagos"
...
app.listen(port, () => {
console.log(`Server Established and running on Port ⚡${port}`)
})
Conclusion
You can easily set your time zone to a correct value by using process.env.TZ ="Continent/Country". I hope this post was helpful. Thanks for reading.
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Abayomi Ogunnusi
Abayomi Ogunnusi | Sciencx (2021-12-01T23:36:40+00:00) Time Zone: Nodejs. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2021/12/01/time-zone-nodejs/
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