I want to get 1 to 24, 1 being 1am Pacific Time.
How can I get that number in Node.JS?
I want to know what time it is in Pacific time right now.
You should checkout the Date object.
In particular, you can look at the getHours() method for the Date object.
getHours() return the time from 0 - 23, so make sure to deal with it accordingly. I think 0-23 is a bit more intuitive since military time runs from 0 - 23, but it's up to you.
With that in mind, the code would be something along the lines of:
var date = new Date();
var current_hour = date.getHours();
This function will return you the date and time in the following format: YYYY:MM:DD:HH:MM:SS. It also works in Node.js.
function getDateTime() {
var date = new Date();
var hour = date.getHours();
hour = (hour < 10 ? "0" : "") + hour;
var min = date.getMinutes();
min = (min < 10 ? "0" : "") + min;
var sec = date.getSeconds();
sec = (sec < 10 ? "0" : "") + sec;
var year = date.getFullYear();
var month = date.getMonth() + 1;
month = (month < 10 ? "0" : "") + month;
var day = date.getDate();
day = (day < 10 ? "0" : "") + day;
return year + ":" + month + ":" + day + ":" + hour + ":" + min + ":" + sec;
}