Current Date and Time in ISOish Format accounting for timezones

Guide

Code

Javascript code to get timestamp in current timezone of the form YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss let timestamp = new Date().toLocaleString('sv');

Result

This produces the result:

Problem

This is to get around the fact that the .toISOString() method: let timestamp = new Date().toISOString().replace("T"," ").slice(0,19); which produces a timestamp in a similar format: cannot handle timezones and is always limited to UTC time.

Explanation

sv is the Swedish country code. They style their dates in the format YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss

Sources

• Stack Overflow