How to Set a Countdown in Node.js with time zone?

[saeedhei]

How to Set a Countdown in Node.js with time zone?

I need: begin at noon Eastern Standard Time on Wednesday November 22, 2017

today is 2017.11.01 and I used this code for checking tommorrow

const countdown = require('countdown');
var aaa = countdown( new Date(2017, 11, 2) ).toString();
console.log(aaa)

But my Output is: 1 month, 19 hours, 21 minutes and 11 seconds That Output is incorrect maybe because I'm in uae Now

[mckamey]

new Date(2017, 11, 2) => 2017-12-02

[saeedhei]

I'm Getting Syntax Error Can you edit my Example please and write full code and set to tommorow I mean today is 01.11.2017 and tommorow is 02.11.2017 ///////////////////////////////// var aaa = countdown(new Date(2017-11-2)).toString(); output 47 years, 10 months, 2 hours, 42 minutes and 31 seconds ///////////////////////////////// var aaa = countdown(new Date(2018, 11, 1), null, countdown.DAYS) console.log(aaa) days: 395 why 395?

[mckamey]

Months are zero based in the Date constructor. So:

const countdown = require('countdown'); var aaa = countdown( new Date(2017, 10, 2) ).toString(); console.log(aaa)

[saeedhei]

And for example I have a meet with my 2 friends in tommorow in my local time zone, And I set countdown for 24 hours later, but if someone be ahead of my local zone and someone behind of my local zone, then how should I solve this problem?

[mckamey]

Unfortunately, time zones are poorly supported in JavaScript. You basically can either work in UTC or the viewer’s browser local time zone. Not much else exists.

The countdown.js readme has a callout box that discusses time zones and how they relate to this.

The short answer is if you are talking about a specific point in time, use the milliseconds constructor to establish specific point in UTC time. If you are talking about a relative date (example New Year’s Day when the year changes), then specify with new Date(yyyy, M, d, H, m, s).

[saeedhei]

Thank you