HomeyScript and system clock

Questions & Help
1

Hi there,

I’m trying to setup a Homeyscript that would chat what hour it is and then perform certain action depending on the hour. If I run

const now = new Date();
const currentHour = now.getHours();

I get the UTC current hour but not my local hour here in Finland.

I’ve tried following:

//set desiredLocale to Finland

const desiredLocale = 'fi-FI';

// Create a new Date object

const now = new Date();

// Get the time string in the specified locale

const timeInLocale = now.toLocaleTimeString(desiredLocale);

But the timeInLocale still returns the UTC time?

When I run the code in javascript emulator it works fine? Any Idea why HomeyScript doesn’t localize the time for me?

Thanks

2

Use the Better Logic Library app for local datetimes.

3

Thanks Arie, but that’s not really what I was looking for. The solution I want to build seems to need the use of HomeyScript, but I would need to get the local time in the homeyScript, but for some reason the HomeyScript doesn’t return the locale.

Or course I can always add the +2 or +3 depending on if it is summer time or winter time to the time returned by Date(), but the problem is that then I need to update that time always when the Daylight sving starts/ends… For that reason I’d like to get the localization to work, and not have to worry about “wrong timezone”.

4

toLocaleTimeString() by itself only formats a time string according to the current locale, not the current timezone. For that, see this post.

6

You can call the date function in HomeyScript through the api from BLL.