How do I get the time of day in javascript/Node.js?

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.

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;

}

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();

Check out the moment.js library. It works with browsers as well as with Node.JS. Allows you to write

moment().hour();

or

moment().hours();

without prior writing of any functions.

Both prior answers are definitely good solutions. If you're amenable to a library, I like moment.js - it does a lot more than just getting/formatting the date.

There's native method to work with date

const date = new Date();
let hours = date.getHours();

If you only want the time string you can use this expression (with a simple RegEx):

new Date().toISOString().match(/(\d{2}:){2}\d{2}/)[0]
// "23:00:59"

var date = new Date();
var year = date.getFullYear();
var month = date.getMonth() + 1;
month = (month < 10 ? "0" : "") + month;
var hour = date.getHours();
hour = (hour < 10 ? "0" : "") + hour;
var day  = date.getDate();
day = (hour > 12 ? "" : "") + day - 1;
day = (day < 10 ? "0" : "") + day;
x = ":"
console.log( month + x + day + x + year )

It will display the date in the month, day, then the year

For my instance i used it as a global and then called its for a time check of when hours of operation.

Below is from my index.js

global.globalDay = new Date().getDay(); 

global.globalHours = new Date().getHours();

To call the global's value from another file

    /*
     Days of the Week.
     Sunday = 0, Monday = 1, Tuesday = 2, Wensday = 3, Thursday = 4, Friday = 5, Saturday = 6

     Hours of the Day.
     0 = Midnight, 1 = 1am, 12 = Noon, 18 = 6pm, 23 = 11pm
     */

if (global.globalDay === 6 || global.globalDay === 0) {
     console.log('Its the weekend.');
} else if (global.globalDay > 0 && global.globalDay < 6 && global.globalHours > 8 && global.globalHours < 18) {
     console.log('During Business Hours!');
} else {
     console.log("Outside of Business hours!");
}

To start your node in PST time zone , use following command in ubuntu.

TZ=\"/usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT+0\" && export TZ && npm start &

Then You can refer Date Library to get the custom calculation date and time functions in node.

To use it client side refer this link, download index.js and assertHelper.js and include that in your HTML.

<script src="assertHelper.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="index.js"></script>
$( document ).ready(function() {
    DateLibrary.getDayOfWeek(new Date("2015-06-15"),{operationType:"Day_of_Week"}); // Output : Monday
}

You can use different functions as given in examples to get custom dates.

If first day of week is Sunday, what day will be on 15th June 2015.

 DateLibrary.getDayOfWeek(new Date("2015-06-15"),
    {operationType:"Day_Number_of_Week",
        startDayOfWeek:"Sunday"}) // Output : 1

If first day of week is Tuesday, what week number in year will be follow in 15th June 2015 as one of the date.

 DateLibrary.getWeekNumber(new Date("2015-06-15"),
    {operationType:"Week_of_Year",
        startDayOfWeek:"Tuesday"}) // Output : 24

Refer other functions to fulfill your custom date requirements.