Components using Date objects produce different snapshots in different timezones

Question

I\'m using Enzyme with enzyme-to-json to do Jest snapshot testing of my React components. I\'m testing shallow snapshots of a DateRange component that renders a

Answer 1

If you're using new Date() constructor instead of Date.now you can do like below:

const RealDate = Date;

beforeEach(() => {
  // @ts-ignore
  global.Date = class extends RealDate {
    constructor() {
      super();
      return new RealDate("2016");
    }
  };
})
afterEach(() => {
  global.Date = RealDate;
});

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