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Using new Date() in a suitlet returns pacific time. I want to set a TIMEOFDAY field with the user preference time zone. How do I do that?

thats new, and probably a bug you want to bring up with support

<@U5TF1GQ20> basically doing this sets it to pacific time and not the user preference like a date time field does

```schedulerec.setValue({ fieldId: 'custrecord_dc_schedule_start_time', value: new Date()})```

new? I thought the suitelet code (running server side) will generally return pacific time since that's where the servers are located?

it used to be smart enough to convert it to the correct timezone

yes <@U02QAQB104D> that is what is happening. When i set a date time field it uses user preference and coverts date correctly but not when doing on a TIME OF DAY field

<@U5TF1GQ20> you're saying the internals of `setValue` would convert server timezone into user preference time zone behind the scenes?

it was similar to format.format in that it would convert the pacific timezone Date into a datetime string that used the user's timezone

i tried format.format and it didn't change anything

i even set the timezone to a different one in format.format and it didn't change

maybe TIMEOFDAY forgot to get that treatment

that is what i figured out basically so trying to figure out another way

Same has happneed to me i tend to parse then format which then picks up the account prefernce.