How to get current time in current timezone?

[erjdriver]

Apologies - I tried to look for a solution and couldn't find it.

How do I get the current time in the current timezone or how do I get the current timezone?

spacetime.now() gets the utc time -

or if I knew the current timezone, I could do

spacetime.now(timezone)

Thanks.

[jecraig]

I'm not sure what you're trying to do. The spacetime library will just default to whatever your browser time is to.

[erjdriver]

I'm trying to use get the current time for the current timezone.

I'm using in the context of an app - the app is open and user changes timezones (in the phone or flies there) and I'd like to get the new local time in the local timezone...iow...i'm using a npm to create an android app and using it.

e.g. someone flies from NY to Denver.

spacetime.now() gets utc

The user can be in any timezone - I'd like to know that - localtime in local timezone.

[jecraig]

Make sure your timezones have the correct tz names. To see the list that spacetime supports you can use spacetime.now().timezones

And here's an example in use

[erjdriver]

When I do spacetime.now(), I get

{ JS: "epoch": 1597014104271, JS: "tz": "utc", JS: "silent": true, JS: "_weekStart": 1 JS: }

Note the tz is utc - not my timezone.

That's the problem I'm trying to solve.

I'm not using this lib in a browser. I'm using it to develop an Android app using Nativescript framework. I added this lib to the project using npm.

[jecraig]

Try doing spacetime.now('america/new_york') or spacetime.now('america/denver') and see if the time that comes back with different times.

[erjdriver]

That works.

But I'm trying to get the current device/phone timezone and time.

Looking at the source code

spacetime/src/timezone/guessTz.js

It seems if Intl object is not defined - then default of utc is used.

[spencermountain]

@erjdriver yeah, if the browser doesn't support Intl, you may need to fallback to a 3rd party geolocation service

some use maxmind, though i have no experience with it cheers