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Description
Use Case
Prerequisite: The system must be running in a different timezone (e.g., UTC).
When the system is in a different timezone, handling dates and times specific to Nepal's timezone (Asia/Kathmandu) can be challenging. For instance, if we have a date/time string in Nepal's timezone, there is no direct way to retrieve Nepal-specific values like the year, month, day, hour, or minutes. Instead, it always returns data in the system's timezone data.
Thanks to the NepaliDate
class, from which this can be achieved. However, introducing this feature could also benefit the NepaliDate
class by improving logic decoupling. Additionally, not every use case requires converting the date to the Nepali calendar.
Proposed Solution
Create a NepalTimezoneDate
class that extends JavaScript's Date
object. The NepalTimezoneDate
object would behave exactly like a Date
object operating on Asia/Kathmandu timezone.
Example Usage:
const date1 = new Date();
// 2024-12-28T15:00:35.170Z
const date2 = new NepalTimezoneDate();
// 2024-12-28 20:45:35 GMT+0545
date2.getYear(); // 2024
date2.getMinutes(); // 45
Alternatives Considered
N/A
Dependencies
N/A
Additional Context
The logic implemented in NepaliDate
are in src/utils.ts
> getNepalDateAndTime
and getDate