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David Wippel
David Wippel

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Running node in UTC instead of local timezone

Set the env variable TZ to utc to run a node process in UTC instead of your local timezone. This enables debugging DateTime issues locally because servers often run in UTC.

e.g. TZ=utc node index.js

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Charlie Schliesser •

Doing the lord's work.

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Jamon Douglas •

this comment made my day

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Michael-Xie •

Simple yet time saving, thank you!

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Fernando Costa •

Lost half day trying to understand a dumb thing, i am a dumb. God give you all you want, thanks.

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Eddy Navarrete •

you rock dude, Thank you!!!