Get local datetime into Function node using moment.js

A quick example showing how to get the local date and time into a Function node using moment.js.

This relies on the GENERIC_TIMEZONE environment variable being correctly configured (see the docs here )

NOTE : In order for this to work, you must whitelist the moment library for use by setting the following environment variable:

 NODE_FUNCTION_ALLOW_EXTERNAL=moment

For convenience, the Function code is as follows:

 const moment = require('moment');

 let date = moment().tz($env['GENERIC_TIMEZONE']);

 let year = date.year();
 let month = date.month(); // zero-indexed!
 let day = date.date();
 let hour = date.hours();
 let minute = date.minutes();
 let second = date.seconds();
 let millisecond = date.millisecond();
 let formatted = date.format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss.SSS Z');

 return [
 {
 json: {
 utc: date,
 year: year,
 month: month, // zero-indexed!
 day: day,
 hour: hour,
 minute: minute,
 second: second,
 millisecond: millisecond, 
formatted: formatted
 }
 }
 ];