JavaScript Date.toJSON() produces a date which has wrong hours and minutes

Question

I want to print a Date to `ISO-8601` standard: `YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.sssZ` so I used the following lines of code, but I am getting unexpected output ``` var date = new Date(2012, 10, 30, 6, 51); print('UTC Format: '+date.toGMTString()); print('toString() method: '+date.toString()); print('toJSON() method: '+date.toJSON());//print hours and minutes incorrectly print('to UTCString() method: ' + date.toUTCString()); ``` The corresponding output is ``` UTC Format: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 01:21:00 GMT toString() method: Fri Nov 30 2012 06:51:00 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time) toJSON() method: 2012-11-30T01:21:00.000Z to UTCString() method: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 01:21:00 GMT ``` The toJSON() method prints hours and minutes incorrectly but toString() prints it correctly, I wanted to know what is the reason for that. Do I have to add time offset to the Date object, if yes then how?

Accepted Answer

```
var date = new Date();
console.log(date.toJSON(), new Date(date.getTime() - (date.getTimezoneOffset() * 60000)).toJSON());
```

JavaScript Date.toJSON() produces a date which has wrong hours and minutes

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