Date.toLocaleString does not work properly

September 18, 2023

So i am setting up an api that sends me an email on user submission

It adds a date to the email as such

const date = new Date().toLocaleString("en-GB", {
    timeZone: "Europe/Athensli",
  });
  const mailMe = {
    from: process.env.EMAIL,
    to: process.env.MYEMAIL,
    subject: "New Message",
    html: `<p>Name: ${name}</p>
        <p>Date: ${date}</p>
        <p>Email: ${email}</p>
        <p>Company: ${company}</p>
        <p>Message: ${message}</p>`,
  };

The thing is, the email comes with everything looking good but "undefined" in the date field

Running the line in node terminal returns


>let dt = new Date().toLocaleString("en-GB", {timezone: "Europe/Athens",}); console.log(dt);
18/09/2023, 12:29:32
undefined

While "new Date().toLocaleString("en-GB", {timezone: "Europe/Athens",});" by itself returns the expected
’18/09/2023, 12:29:32′

Can anyone help me understand what i am missing?

As far as looking it up goes it should be ok as is.

>Solution :

The undefined returned by a Node terminal is coming from the console.log() call itself. The first line contains the printed value which is 18/09/2023, 12:29:32, and the second line is a value returned by the .log() method which is indeed undefined because console.log() does not return anything special.

If you want to check the value of the dt variable in the Node terminal, just type