jQuery string casting as date and adding an hour

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I'm working with an API which returns dates in the following format:

2017-07-28T12:36:17Z

I'm used to working with unix timestamps. What I need to do ultimately is add an hour to the time segment in order to account for British Summer Time.

How can I cast this data as a date, add an hour and then output the time segment?

Durga · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-28 12:30:33Z

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console.log(new Date('2017-07-28T12:36:17Z').setUTCHours(1))

for British Summer Time (BST) use .setUTCHours(1) . Check setUTCHours()

answered Jul 28, 2017 at 12:30

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Vineesh · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-28 12:28:36Z

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You can use Date() function

var d = new Date('2017-07-28T12:36:17Z');
console.log(d);
d.setHours(d.getHours()+1);
console.log(d);

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danwellman · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-28 12:30:40Z

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This is a UTC formatted date, which includes a time string.

You can cast this as a JavaScript date using the Date constructor, e.g:

var testDate = new Date('2017-07-28T12:36:17Z');
console.log(testDate) // Fri Jul 28 2017 13:36:17 GMT+0100 (GMT Daylight Time)

Once it is a JS Date object, you can manipulate it as you need.

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Durga Over a year ago

Here Date value will return according to your local time zone not in BST.

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