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shane
New Contributor II
6 years ago

Can't create a non-UTC Date object to call .getTime() on

I need to pull data from an API that needs a timestamp as a parameter. This API retrieves data from a system (not in my control) that is based in the America/Las_Angeles timezone. I have tried for ...
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christwr
Contributor III
6 years ago

Date.now().toLocaleDateString({"timeZone":"America/Los_Angeles", "format":"yyyy-MM-dd"}) + " 00:00:00"

It will “handle” whether it’s currently PDT or PST.

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shane
New Contributor II
6 years ago

That will get you a date-time string not a timestamp. How do you turn that into a timestamp?