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Date.prototype.getTimezoneOffset() — Negative values and positive values

The number of minutes returned by getTimezoneOffset() is positive if the local time zone is behind UTC, and negative if the local time zone is ahead of UTC.

Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions). The number of minutes returned by getTimezoneOffset() is positive if the local time zone is behind UTC, and negative if the local time zone is ahead of UTC. For example, for UTC+10, -600 will be returned. Attribution: Adapted from MDN Web Docs under CC-BY-SA-2.5. Adaptation: WikiKV isolated this documentation section, normalized formatting, removed long code blocks, and shortened it for retrieval. Verify version-sensitive details at the source.
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