Angular 4 date pipe displays wrong date because of time zones - how to fix this?

Question

I have a date value in each of my objects that I can Print like this:

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And here is how it l

Answer 1

Behind the scenes, DatePipe uses locale to display date in user's timezone. Try with client's timezone data:

1931-05-31T00:00:00.000-0300 instead of 1931-05-31T00:00:00.000+0000.

You can get client's offset in minutes using (new Date()).getTimezoneOffset()

This is actually the known issue/limitation of DatePipe. Community is aware of it. It the future, you will be able to specify timezone as one of parameters ({{ value | date:format:zone }}).

Here is the issue on github: https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/9324

For more advanced date manipulations, I recommend moment.js (less headaches, better consistency, less testing, simpler maintaining).

EDIT: It has been added:

date_expression | date[:format[:timezone[:locale]]]

Code: https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/5.0.4/packages/common/src/pipes/date_pipe.ts#L137 Docs: https://angular.io/api/common/DatePipe