How do I output an ISO 8601 formatted string in JavaScript?

Question

I have a Date object. How do I render the title portion of the following snippet?

Answer 1

The problem with toISOString is that it gives datetime only as "Z".

ISO-8601 also defines datetime with timezone difference in hours and minutes, in the forms like 2016-07-16T19:20:30+5:30 (when timezone is ahead UTC) and 2016-07-16T19:20:30-01:00 (when timezone is behind UTC).

I don't think it is a good idea to use another plugin, moment.js for such a small task, especially when you can get it with a few lines of code.

    var timezone_offset_min = new Date().getTimezoneOffset(),
        offset_hrs = parseInt(Math.abs(timezone_offset_min/60)),
        offset_min = Math.abs(timezone_offset_min%60),
        timezone_standard;

    if(offset_hrs < 10)
        offset_hrs = '0' + offset_hrs;

    if(offset_min > 10)
        offset_min = '0' + offset_min;

    // getTimezoneOffset returns an offset which is positive if the local timezone is behind UTC and vice-versa.
    // So add an opposite sign to the offset
    // If offset is 0, it means timezone is UTC
    if(timezone_offset_min < 0)
        timezone_standard = '+' + offset_hrs + ':' + offset_min;
    else if(timezone_offset_min > 0)
        timezone_standard = '-' + offset_hrs + ':' + offset_min;
    else if(timezone_offset_min == 0)
        timezone_standard = 'Z';

    // Timezone difference in hours and minutes
    // String such as +5:30 or -6:00 or Z
    console.log(timezone_standard); 

Once you have the timezone offset in hours and minutes, you can append to a datetime string.

I wrote a blog post on it : http://usefulangle.com/post/30/javascript-get-date-time-with-offset-hours-minutes