I need to set a date field at the beginning of every month with the current date of that day. I am setting the field to the value of

new Date()

. It is a small script and I don't want to be busy importing moment.js, but I am concerned about server timezone issues may set it at the wrong date. What is the largest range of hours off that

new Date()

might be from my local timezone?

what kind of scripts is it

If you are based in North America your server is likely West coast time, so 3 hours if you are on the east coast.

for scripts like user event scripts, it will be based off of the current user's selected timezone

Oh. Its a map reduce

either way, the timezone used in the javascript is PST, suitescript utilities like N/format automatically convert that server pst timezone to values that match the current user's timezone

You can pretty easily see how far off the server is from your local timezone by firing off the MR. The details on the deployment MR Script Status Page will be in server time, not your local timezone. For example, I just fired off this MR (I'm on east coast), but the details for stages are in the server time.

Interesting article from @tdietrich on using suiteql for time/date functions https://timdietrich.me/blog/netsuite-suiteql-dates-times/.

function getTodayInCurrentUserTimezone() {
        return format.parse({type: format.Type.DATE, value: format.format({type: format.Type.DATETIME, value: new Date()})});
    }

This will get you a date object in the current user's timezone. You gotta use N/format module.

Thanks everyone!