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> The tricky part is unlearning how to search.

Hum I'd argue that you've never learned how to search.

I would have searched for "javascript date to string in specific timezone", and it would have given the following result, which is exactly what ChatGPT gives: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10087819/convert-date-to...

Actually, if you already know that you can pass a timezone to toLocaleString(), I would just go on the documentation of the function: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

I'm starting to understand why there are so many people on HN claiming that "Google has started to give me bad results in recent years".

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> I'm starting to understand why there are so many people on HN claiming that "Google has started to give me bad results in recent years".

I thought I was going crazy. Googles been working fine for me and I was wondering if I was just being delusional or in denial.

I was served maybe 60-80% spam from Google around 10 months ago (now resolved). The results you see can be significantly different from what others see.

Sample from 10 months ago: https://i.imgur.com/Hla7cyT.jpg

In that resolution, the picture is almost a blurr.

Seems fine to me

     curl -O https://i.imgur.com/Hla7cyT.jpeg && sips -g pixelHeight -g pixelWidth -g dpiWidth -g dpiHeight Hla7cyT.jpeg

    pixelHeight: 2009
    pixelWidth: 1879
    dpiWidth: 72.000
    dpiHeight: 72.000

If you're on mobile, Imgur doesn't allow you to view a high resolution version. You have to copy the image URL and then adjust the maxwidth query parameter:

https://i.imgur.com/Hla7cyT_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&...

Because who would want to be able to see the whole image?

still blurry to me

Did you change the value of max width? Eg https://i.imgur.com/Hla7cyT_d.webp?maxwidth=6400

Here's a link to the proper version: https://i.imgur.com/Hla7cyT_d.png?maxwidth=999999

But I don't want a specific timezone. I want it to ignore the timezone. I knew it was being thrown off by timezone but was unsure why.

This is one of dozens sometimes hundreds of questions I need answers to every day and want to minimize the friction. I don't want to have to read this unless I don't have to. Sure sometimes if its important enough or I'm curious, but the ChatGPT answer was much better for me. And I get by fine on Google otherwise

function convertTZ(date, tzString) {

    return new Date((typeof date === "string" ? new Date(date) : date).toLocaleString("en-US", {timeZone: tzString}));

}

// usage: Asia/Jakarta is GMT+7

convertTZ("2012/04/20 10:10:30 +0000", "Asia/Jakarta") // Tue Apr 20 2012 17:10:30 GMT+0700 (Western Indonesia Time)

// Resulting value is regular Date() object

const convertedDate = convertTZ("2012/04/20 10:10:30 +0000", "Asia/Jakarta")

convertedDate.getHours(); // 17

// Bonus: You can also put Date object to first arg

const date = new Date()

convertTZ(date, "Asia/Jakarta") // current date-time in jakarta.

Reading documentation instead clicking first SO link or writing 6 lines to a bot? You must be crazy!

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