How to get UTC offset in javascript (analog of TimeZoneInfo.GetUtcOffset in C#)

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Vadim’s answer might get you some decimal points after the division by 60; not all offsets are perfect multiples of 60 minutes. Here’s what I’m using to format values for ISO 8601 strings:

function pad(value) {
    return value < 10 ? '0' + value : value;
}
function createOffset(date) {
    var sign = (date.getTimezoneOffset() > 0) ? "-" : "+";
    var offset = Math.abs(date.getTimezoneOffset());
    var hours = pad(Math.floor(offset / 60));
    var minutes = pad(offset % 60);
    return sign + hours + ":" + minutes;
}

This returns values like “+01:30” or “-05:00”. You can extract the numeric values from my example if needed to do calculations.

Note that getTimezoneOffset() returns a the number of minutes difference from UTC, so that value appears to be opposite (negated) of what is needed for formats like ISO 8601. Hence why I used Math.abs() (which also helps with not getting negative minutes) and how I constructed the ternary.

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