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Current DateTime in User's timezone

edited Dec 2, 2019 5:53PM in SuiteCloud / Customization 13 comments

I'm wrestling a bit with setting a custom field of type datetime to the current time in the user's timezone. I'm trying to get this in a server-side script.
The following code gives me the time in the server's time zone.

var startTime= nlapiDateToString(new Date(), 'datetimetz')  record.setFieldValue('custbody_currenttime', startTime);


I can get the user's time zone via a preference, but that alone isn't very helpful, because it just gives me "America/New_York" - I would need the timezone offset to adjust the server time (which can change based on DST).

I've tried a slew of other approaches. The nlapi's for converting a string to date and date to string seem to ignore the timezone.

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