Format Current Time 🕰️

new Date(Date.now()).toLocaleTimeString("en-US", {
  timeZone: "America/Chicago",
    })

The above code outputs something like: 4:30:05 PM.

For me, this comes in handy when running a Node server that is being watched by something like nodemon. In this way, I can see 👀 the timings and know that things are updating properly as I save my code.

Note that if you want the entire date included, just use: toLocaleString instead of toLocaleTimeString 👆🏾.

Finally, you can see 👀 the list here to get the correct TZ strings such as "America/Chicago".

Comments

[Konrad Linkowski]

You should rather use Intl instead

[Manav Misra]

That works too...not really sure what would be the benefit.

[Konrad Linkowski]

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...
Intl is the new optimized API where Date objects starts to be a little obsolete.