How to get string representation of date in Luxon with specified timezone

Question

I need to display dates in my web application with PST timezone. It should not be dependent of the timezone of the user.

I tried the following code:

const dateTime = DateTime.fromISO('2022-03-22T15:00:00.000Z');
dateTime.setZone("America/Los_Angeles");
console.log(dateTime.toLocaleString(DateTime.DATETIME_FULL));

But anyway, it displays:

March 22, 2022, 4:00 PM GMT+1

How possible to get output in timezone defined?

Thank you

user_7237224 · Answer

DateTimes are immutable in luxon, so the .setZone() call will not change your original dateTime variable, rather it will return a new value.

I'd suggest setting the zone in the .fromISO() call:

const { DateTime } = luxon;
const dateTime = DateTime.fromISO('2022-03-22T15:00:00.000Z', {
    zone: "America/Los_Angeles"
});
console.log(dateTime.toLocaleString(DateTime.DATETIME_FULL));
console.log(dateTime.toISO());

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Or you could call .setZone() on the result of the .fromISO() call:

const { DateTime } = luxon;
const dateTime = DateTime.fromISO('2022-03-22T15:00:00.000Z').setZone(
    'America/Los_Angeles'
);
console.log(dateTime.toLocaleString(DateTime.DATETIME_FULL));
console.log(dateTime.toISO());

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How to get string representation of date in Luxon with specified timezone

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