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Is there a consistent way that I can retrieve a UTC timestamp from NetSuite regardless of the timezone set in Company and/or User Prefs?

If you have a date object, use Date.UTC()

I'm using new Date().valueOf(). (which is equivalent no?)

Full transparency .. I'm making use of an API call out that wants a timestamp

and we're getting different values based on different users (so, clearly a preference thing).

I'd like to come up with a getUTCTimeStamp function that works for all preference combinations

is this server-side or client side? I have a function client side that always returns the date in the current user's timezone. May need to format it first then convert it

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

dunno if the server-side is throwing it off.

Odd ... I thought new Date().valueOf() wouldn't care about timezone (maybe I need to do more testing)

well if serverside is not in the same location and you only use new Date, then it could def be off

maybe someone has a better answer for you though. I would try formatting just as a test

I would have thought that if `new Date().valueOf()` was run on any server with any system timezone would produce the same integer value.  It's simply `the number of milliseconds since 1 January 1970 UTC`.  So wouldn't the number be that same any where in teh world?

If the server is on the west coast and you're on the east coast, then potential 3 hours difference in that UTC time because the date is different. Unless i'm just wrong.

I'll hunt down 2 differently located NetSuite instances and report back here

<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/now|Date.now> is what I usually use

that represents the time now, which is actually the same regardless of the timezone