I have a web page with three drop-down menus, day, month and year. If I use the JavaScript Date constructor with numbers, I get the Date object for the current time zone:

new Date(xiYear, xiMonth, xiDate)

Enter the correct date, but because of daylight saving time, it thinks it's GMT + 01:00.

The problem here is that I then passed the Date to the Ajax method, and when I deserialized the Date on the server, it was converted to GMT, so I wasted an hour, thus reversing the day by an hour. Now, I can pass dates, months, and years to Ajax methods, respectively, but there seems to be a better way.

Acceptable answers point me in the right direction, but using setutresources () alone has changed:

Apr 5th 00:00 GMT+01:00 

to

Apr 4th 23:00 GMT+01:00

Then I have to set the UTC date, month and year, and finally

Apr 5th 01:00 GMT+01:00

That's what I want.

#1 building

I believe you need the createdateasautc function (compare with convertdatetoautc)

function createDateAsUTC(date) {
    return new Date(Date.UTC(date.getFullYear(), date.getMonth(), date.getDate(), date.getHours(), date.getMinutes(), date.getSeconds()));
}

function convertDateToUTC(date) { 
    return new Date(date.getUTCFullYear(), date.getUTCMonth(), date.getUTCDate(), date.getUTCHours(), date.getUTCMinutes(), date.getUTCSeconds()); 
}

#2 building

If you want to deal with the slightly different but related problem of creating Javascript Date objects (that is, if you want to parse strings into dates) from dates such as year, month, day (including time zone), you can obviously have to do an incredibly complex dance:

// parseISO8601String : string -> Date
// Parse an ISO-8601 date, including possible timezone,
// into a Javascript Date object.
//
// Test strings: parseISO8601String(x).toISOString()
// "2013-01-31T12:34"              -> "2013-01-31T12:34:00.000Z"
// "2013-01-31T12:34:56"           -> "2013-01-31T12:34:56.000Z"
// "2013-01-31T12:34:56.78"        -> "2013-01-31T12:34:56.780Z"
// "2013-01-31T12:34:56.78+0100"   -> "2013-01-31T11:34:56.780Z"
// "2013-01-31T12:34:56.78+0530"   -> "2013-01-31T07:04:56.780Z"
// "2013-01-31T12:34:56.78-0330"   -> "2013-01-31T16:04:56.780Z"
// "2013-01-31T12:34:56-0330"      -> "2013-01-31T16:04:56.000Z"
// "2013-01-31T12:34:56Z"          -> "2013-01-31T12:34:56.000Z"
function parseISO8601String(dateString) {
    var timebits = /^([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{2})T([0-9]{2}):([0-9]{2})(?::([0-9]*)(\.[0-9]*)?)?(?:([+-])([0-9]{2})([0-9]{2}))?/;
    var m = timebits.exec(dateString);
    var resultDate;
    if (m) {
        var utcdate = Date.UTC(parseInt(m[1]),
                               parseInt(m[2])-1, // months are zero-offset (!)
                               parseInt(m[3]),
                               parseInt(m[4]), parseInt(m[5]), // hh:mm
                               (m[6] && parseInt(m[6]) || 0),  // optional seconds
                               (m[7] && parseFloat(m[7])*1000) || 0); // optional fraction
        // utcdate is milliseconds since the epoch
        if (m[9] && m[10]) {
            var offsetMinutes = parseInt(m[9]) * 60 + parseInt(m[10]);
            utcdate += (m[8] === '+' ? -1 : +1) * offsetMinutes * 60000;
        }
        resultDate = new Date(utcdate);
    } else {
        resultDate = null;
    }
    return resultDate;
}

That is, you create a UTC time using a date without a time zone (so you know its locale, UTC locale, and it is not local locale by default), and then manually apply the indicated time zone offset.

Wouldn't it be nice if someone actually considered Javascript date objects for more than five minutes?

#3 building

var d = new Date(xiYear, xiMonth, xiDate);
d.setTime( d.getTime() + d.getTimezoneOffset()*60*1000 );

The answer is specifically tailored to the original question and will not provide the answer you necessarily expect. In particular, some people want to subtract time zone offsets rather than add them. Keep in mind that while the focus of this solution is on cracking javascript's date object for a specific deserialization, it is not correct in all cases.

#4 building

The best solution I've seen comes from

http://www.codingforums.com/archive/index.php/t-19663.html

Print time function

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
//borrowed from echoecho
//http://www.echoecho.com/ubb/viewthread.php?tid=2362&pid=10482&#pid10482
workDate = new Date()
UTCDate = new Date()
UTCDate.setTime(workDate.getTime()+workDate.getTimezoneOffset()*60000)

function printTime(offset) {
    offset++;
    tempDate = new Date()
    tempDate.setTime(UTCDate.getTime()+3600000*(offset))
    timeValue = ((tempDate.getHours()<10) ? ("0"+tempDate.getHours()) : (""+tempDate.getHours()))
    timeValue += ((tempDate.getMinutes()<10) ? ("0"+tempDate.getMinutes()) : tempDate.getMinutes())
    timeValue += " hrs."
    return timeValue
    }
    var now = new Date()
    var seed = now.getTime() % 0xfffffff
    var same = rand(12)
</script>

Banff, Canada:
<script language="JavaScript">document.write(printTime("-7"))</script>

Full code example

<html>

<head>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
//borrowed from echoecho
//http://www.echoecho.com/ubb/viewthread.php?tid=2362&pid=10482&#pid10482
workDate = new Date()
UTCDate = new Date()
UTCDate.setTime(workDate.getTime()+workDate.getTimezoneOffset()*60000)

function printTime(offset) {
offset++;
tempDate = new Date()
tempDate.setTime(UTCDate.getTime()+3600000*(offset))
timeValue = ((tempDate.getHours()<10) ? ("0"+tempDate.getHours()) : (""+tempDate.getHours()))
timeValue += ((tempDate.getMinutes()<10) ? ("0"+tempDate.getMinutes()) : tempDate.getMinutes())
timeValue += " hrs."
return timeValue
}
var now = new Date()
var seed = now.getTime() % 0xfffffff
var same = rand(12)
</script>

</head>

<body>
Banff, Canada:
<script language="JavaScript">document.write(printTime("-7"))</script>
<br>
Michigan:
<script language="JavaScript">document.write(printTime("-5"))</script>
<br>
Greenwich, England(UTC):
<script language="JavaScript">document.write(printTime("-0"))</script>
<br>
Tokyo, Japan:
<script language="JavaScript">document.write(printTime("+9"))</script>
<br>
Berlin, Germany:
<script language="JavaScript">document.write(printTime("+1"))</script>

</body>
</html>

#5 building

getTimeZoneOffset is negative for UTC + z.

var d = new Date(xiYear, xiMonth, xiDate);
if(d.getTimezoneOffset() > 0){
    d.setTime( d.getTime() + d.getTimezoneOffset()*60*1000 );
}