I have a record that comes from the NWS weather API. The lat and long of this weather can be anywhere in the US and the timezone is shown on the response as a string. i.e. "America/New_York". How do ensure that the time shown on my record is same string time listed without conversion?

So if a weather event were to happen at 5 AM in New York (keeping with my example) I want the record to show 5 AM but when saving the time I believe it's being converted to 5 AM PST (server time) or possibly 5 AM MST (client time) depending on if I'm running the code as a test or not.

And use the Date to set fields

Netsuite will set the field using the timezone from the current user

it comes in looking something like "2019-11-12T060000-05:00" So I want my record to show that the timezone is "America/New_York" and then "11-12-2019 6:00 AM" in a readable format.

Netsuite doesn't have a built in mechanism to turn "2019-11-12T060000-05:00" into a Date

And it will suck to convert that string into netsuite's date time string format if you have to handle multiple time zones

so far I've been using a Zigman style parseISO function function parseISOString(s){ var b = s.split(/\D+/); return new Date(Date.UTC(b[0], --b[1], b[2], b[3], b[4], b[5], b[6])); } along with the native nlapi function var str_date_example = nlapiDateToString(parseISOString(forecast_period.exampleTime), 'datetimetz');

the problem is I'm not sure that's working how I thought it was working when I set it up