breezejs: date is not set to the right time

Question

I\'ve noticed that if a date property comes back from the server with the value \"2013-07-11T17:11:04.700\", then breeze changes the value to Thu Jul 11 19:11:04 UTC+0200 20

Answer 1

By default, Breeze does not provide any way to do this, but you can keep the below code in your model JS file to overcome this issue:

breeze.DataType.parseDateFromServer = function (source) {
                if (typeof source === 'string') {
                    //Check for local offset time or UTC time from server
                    if (source.slice(-1) !== "Z") {
                        var oldSource = source;

                        try {
                            source = source.substring(0, source.lastIndexOf("-") - 1)
                            source = new Date(source);
                            var tzDifference = source.getTimezoneOffset();
                            //convert the offset to milliseconds, add to targetTime, and make a new Date
                            var offsetTime = new Date(source.getTime() + tzDifference * 60 * 1000);
                            return offsetTime;
                        }
                        catch (err) {
                            source = new Date(source);
                            return source;
                        }
                    }
                    else {
                        source = new Date(source);

                        var tzDifference = source.getTimezoneOffset();
                        //convert the offset to milliseconds, add to targetTime, and make a new Date
                        var offsetTime = new Date(source.getTime() + tzDifference * 60 * 1000);

                        return offsetTime;
                    }
                }
            }