Create a Date with a set timezone without using a string representation

Question

I have a web page with three dropdowns for day, month and year. If I use the JavaScript Date constructor that takes numbers, then I get a Date obje

Answer 1

This code will return your Date object formatted with the browser timezone.

Date.prototype.timezone = function () {
    this.setHours(this.getHours() + (new Date().getTimezoneOffset() / 60));
    return this;
}

Edit:

To avoid to pollute the Date API, the above function can be transformed into a utility function. The function takes a Date object, and returns a mutated Date object.

function setTimeZone(date) {
    date.setHours(date.getHours() + (new Date().getTimezoneOffset() / 60));
    return date;
}