How to capture UTC instead of local time in VS Code timestamp snippet?

Question

So I've now got this great timestamp inside a code snippet in VS Code.

Full snippet:

"Frontmatter":{
        "prefix": "sqFront",
        "body": [
            "---",
            "title: $1",
            "permalink: $2",
            "description: $3",
            "date: ${CURRENT_YEAR}-${CURRENT_MONTH}-${CURRENT_DATE}T${CURRENT_HOUR}:${CURRENT_MINUTE}:${CURRENT_SECOND}Z",
            "tags:",
              "- $0",
            "---"
        ]
    }

How do I set the snippet to capture UTC time instead of my local time?

Some options here: maybe one of the extensions mentioned there. — Mark
– Mark, Commented Jun 27, 2021 at 17:04

rioV8 · Accepted Answer · 2021-06-28 03:08:10Z

1

You can use the HyperSnips extension:

Define the following snippet in the language.hsnips file or in all.hsnips file if you want to have it many file types

snippet sqFront "Frontmatter" b
---
title: $1
permalink: $2
description: $3
date: `` d = new Date();
twodigit = n => n.toString().padStart(2,'0');
rv = `${d.getUTCFullYear()}-${twodigit(d.getUTCMonth()+1)}-${twodigit(d.getUTCDate())}T${twodigit(d.getUTCHours())}:${twodigit(d.getUTCMinutes())}:${twodigit(d.getUTCSeconds())}Z` ``
tags:
- $0
---
endsnippet

edited Jun 28, 2021 at 3:08

answered Jun 28, 2021 at 3:02

rioV8

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3 Comments

SeaDude Over a year ago

Do you know of a way to do this natively? I've got all my extensions dialed at the moment. Sometime introducing another one causes breakage. Would prefer to do this natively if its possible.

rioV8 Over a year ago

@SeaDude most (native) VSC behavior is done with extensions, so if you eliminate extensions VSC does nothing

SeaDude Over a year ago

Gotcha. I was thinking since there are built-in variables such as CURRENT_HOUR, etc. there may be a built in CURRENT_HOUR_UTC or the like. Or a way to define a timezone that VS Code uses for a snippet, etc.

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