How to prevent JSON.stringify() from altering date?

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34488026/how-to-prevent-json-stringify-from-altering-date

var db_config = {
     host     : 'localhost',
     user     : 'xxx',
     password : '',
     database : 'xxx',
     timezone: 'utc'  //<-here this line was missing
};

That timezone variable solved my problem. I found the answer here:NodeJS responded MySQL timezone is different when I fetch directly from MySQL