getting date in local time from GMT.

[Claus Mygind]

I have a date variable which I receive in the following format:

"2010-02-07T16:49:26Z"

This is a GMT timestamp on my Garmin GPS. I would like the result in my own local time, based on the computer I am using.

What would be some basic code to get this done?

[gits]

just use some string operations or a regExp to format that string ... how should it look like?

kind regards

[Claus Mygind]

In the code below date information is store in the variable cVal.

I separate the date from the time (perhaps not really needed).

Then I use regExp to replace - and : with a comma and space.

Then I combine date and time again in cDate.

My problem is this cDate is a string variable with " " around it. each value needs to be a number not alpahnumeric. As a result I get invalid date.

How do I turn these into numbers?

			var cDate = cVal.slice(0, cVal.indexOf("T") );
			var cTime = cVal.slice( cVal.indexOf("T")+1, cVal.indexOf("Z") ); 
			cDate = cDate.replace( /-/g, ", ");
			cTime = cTime.replace( /:/g, ", ");
			cDate += ", "+cTime

			var dt = new Date( cDate );

			cTime = getLocalTimeFromGMT(dt)


function getLocalTimeFromGMT(sTime){
  var dte = new Date(sTime);
  dte.setTime(dte.getTime()
    - dte.getTimezoneOffset()*60*1000);
//  document.write(dte.toLocaleString());
}

[gits]

try the following:

var s = '2010-02-09T16:49:26Z';

s = s.replace(/[-|T|Z]/g, ' ');

var d = new Date(s);

alert(d);

kind regards

[Claus Mygind]

Great coding advise. Just what I needed.