Does date-fns work on Nginx servers?

[Dhaigh94]

I am having issues with date-fns where I deploy my app to a Nginx server and it is sending the correct dates but the next day it is sending the incorrect dates unless I redeploy my code. Is there a way for date-fns to grab the current date and time when the function is called while it is on a server?

My code example is

const { add, sub, formatISO } = require('date-fns');
const { utcToZonedTime, format } = require('date-fns-tz');

const date = new Date();
const timeZone = 'Australia/Sydney';
const zonedDate = utcToZonedTime(date, timeZone);

function todaysDate() {
	const pattern = 'dd-MM-yyyy';
	return format(zonedDate, pattern);
}

[fturmel]

Hi @Dhaigh94,

I think this is a simple scope issue in your code. The date and zonedDate constants are outside of the function body, so every subsequent call will use the same date.

Try something like this instead:

const { utcToZonedTime, format } = require('date-fns-tz');

const timeZone = 'Australia/Sydney';
const pattern = 'dd-MM-yyyy';

function todaysDate() {
  const zonedDate = utcToZonedTime(new Date(), timeZone);
  return format(zonedDate, pattern);
}