Pass dates to api as milliseconds since 1970 to get correct timezone information

Client/src/app/services/event.service.ts

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ export class EventService {
     }
 
     getEvents(page: number): Observable<Event[]> {
-        let url = EVENTS_BY_PAGE_URL + page + "?pageSize=" + 10;
+        let url = EVENTS_BY_PAGE_URL + page + "?pageSize=" + 10 + "&date=" + (new Date()).getTime().toString();
         return this.http.get(url).map(this.gotData,this).catch(this.dataError)
     };
 
@@ -29,11 +29,8 @@ export class EventService {
         let fd = new FormData();
         fd.append("title",event.title);
         fd.append("description",event.description);
-        fd.append("startDate",event.startDate.getTime().toString());
+        fd.append("startDate",new Date(event.startDate).getTime().toString()); //Pass date as milliseconds since 1970
-        fd.append("endDate",event.endDate.toLocaleString());
+        fd.append("endDate",new Date(event.endDate).getTime().toString()); //Pass date as milliseconds since 1970
-
-        var milli = event.startDate.getTime().toString();
-        console.log(new Date(milli).toLocaleString());
 
         return this.http.post(EVENTS_ADD_URL,fd,{withCredentials:true})
                         .map(d=>{ return d.json(); })

Client/src/app/services/sermon.service.ts

@@ -47,13 +47,10 @@ export class SermonService {
         let fd = new FormData();
         fd.append("title",sermon.title);
         fd.append("description",sermon.description);
-        fd.append("date",sermon.sermonDate.toISOString());
+        fd.append("date",new Date(sermon.sermonDate).getTime().toString()); //Pas date as milliseconds since 1970
         fd.append("author",sermon.author);
         fd.append("file",sermonFile);
 
-        console.log(sermon.sermonDate.toISOString());
-
-
         return this.http.post(SERMON_ADD_URL,fd,{withCredentials:true})
                         .map(d=>{ return d.json(); })
                         .catch(this.dataError);

Server/src/database/events.js

@@ -56,11 +56,9 @@ exports.insertEvent = function(titleOrEventObject, startDateOrCallbackFunction,
         insertEventFromObject(titleOrEventObject, startDateOrCallbackFunction);
         return;
     }
-    //date string needs to be in the following format: yyyy-mm-dd-hh-mm
+    //Date is passed as milliseconds since 1970 so we will convert it to a date object
-    console.log("start date: " + startDateOrCallbackFunction);
+    var startDte = new Date(+startDateOrCallbackFunction);
-    var startDte = new Date(startDateOrCallbackFunction);
+    var endDte = new Date(+endDate);
-    console.log("new start date: " + startDte);
-    var endDte = new Date(endDate);
     connection.query("INSERT INTO Events (CreatedDate,ModifiedDate,Id,Title,StartDate,EndDate,Description) VALUES(CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,NULL,?,?,?,?)",[titleOrEventObject,startDte,endDte,description],function(error,result){
         if (error){
             console.log(error);

Server/src/database/sermons.js

@@ -80,8 +80,8 @@ exports.insertSermon = function(dateOrSermonObject, titleOrCallbackFunction, aut
         insertSermonFromObject(dateOrSermonObject,titleOrCallbackFunction);
         return;
     }
-
+    //Date is passed in as milliseconds from 1970 so we will convert it here
-    dateOrSermonObject = new Date(dateOrSermonObject);
+    dateOrSermonObject = new Date(+dateOrSermonObject);
     connection.query("INSERT INTO Sermons (CreatedDate,ModifiedDate,Id,Date,Title,Author,Description,File) VALUES(?,CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,NULL,?,?,?,?,?)",[new Date,dateOrSermonObject,titleOrCallbackFunction,author,description,file],function(error,result){
         if (error){
             console.log(error);

Server/src/routes/api/share.js

@@ -108,22 +108,10 @@ function getEventMeta(req, res, id){
             return;
         }
 
-        console.log("Start");
-        console.log(event.startDate.toString());
-        console.log(event.startDate.getTimezoneOffset());
         
         var monthNum = event.startDate.getMonth();
         var monthName = MONTHS_FULL[monthNum];
         var day = event.startDate.getDate();
-        var year = event.startDate.getYear();
-        var hour = event.startDate.getHours();
-        var minutes = event.startDate.getMinutes();
-        var time = event.startDate.getTime();
-
-        var utc = event.startDate.getTime() + (event.startDate.getTimezoneOffset() * 60000);
-        //mountain time zone offset
-        var nd = new Date(utc + (3600000*-6));
-
 
         var port = req.socket.localPort;
         var imageUrl = req.protocol + "://" + req.hostname + calendarImageUrl + monthName + "/" + day;
@@ -137,7 +125,7 @@ function getEventMeta(req, res, id){
                         <meta property="og:url"           content="`+ evntUrl +`"/>
                         <meta property="og:type"          content="website" />
                         <meta property="og:title"         content="` + event.title + `" />
-                        <meta property="og:description"   content="` + dateToString(nd) + ` | ` + event.description + `" />
+                        <meta property="og:description"   content="` + event.startDate.toString() + ` | ` + event.description + `" />
                         <meta property="og:image"         content="` + imageUrl + `"/>
                         <meta property="og:image:width"   content="200" />
                         <meta property="og:image:height"  content="200" />