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H everyone ... me, back with more Date Time questions (ARG!).  I cannot get this right.  I'm getting a UTC String `2023-11-10T04:23:00.000Z` that I'm need to set on a NetSuite field of type DateTime.

```const convertOption1 = (utcDateTimeString: string) =&gt; {
    const utcDateTime = new Date(utcDateTimeString);
    log.audit('convertOption1 - utcDateTime', utcDateTime.toISOString());

    const pstOffset = -8 * 60; // -8 hours * 60 minutes
    utcDateTime.setMinutes(utcDateTime.getMinutes() + pstOffset);
    return utcDateTime;
};```


Currently, I'm simply converting it to PST, and setting the field.

your date was fine before you subtracted 8 hours from it

So, all this time, I could have simply taken the incoming UTC datetimestring, and just new Date(..) it, and save?

It must behave differently in non-system contexts (like client-scripts, etc).  No?

The same, the Date constructor has always known how to convert that version of iso8601 into a Date