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copied!<p>I'm using JavaScript and trying to get GMT+0/UTC+0 time (otherwhise called Zulu time) in Unix format.</p> <p>I've managed to get my local time in Unix format like this:</p> <pre><code>var datetime = new Date() var unixtime = Math.floor(Number(datetime/1000)); </code></pre> <p>but when I try to do the same with UTC time...</p> <pre><code>var datetime = new Date() var year = datetime.getUTCFullYear() var month = datetime.getUTCMonth() var day = datetime.getUTCDate() var hours = datetime.getUTCHours() var minutes = datetime.getUTCMinutes() var seconds = datetime.getUTCSeconds() var unixtime = (Date.UTC(year,month,day,hours,minutes,seconds,00)/1000); </code></pre> <p>it fails. I simply get my local time in Unix format.</p> <p>You can run it live here: <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/wC8XH/1/" rel="nofollow">http://jsfiddle.net/wC8XH/1/</a> (Also on pastebin: <a href="http://pastebin.com/uDD5zUah" rel="nofollow">http://pastebin.com/uDD5zUah</a>)</p> <p>This is an example of output:</p> <pre><code>2012-01-30 23:15:19 = 1327958119 2012-01-30 21:15:19 = 1327958119 </code></pre> <p>Doing:</p> <pre><code>date -d "2012-01-30 21:15:19" +%s </code></pre> <p>on Linux gives me 1327950919, not 1327958119. The difference is 7200 seconds, which is 2 hours, which is my timezone (+0200).</p> <p>So I can get UTC+0 time if I simply want it in human readable format but when I request Date.UTC to convert that into Unix format, it instead chooses to convert my local time.</p> <p>Am I missing something?</p>

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