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AI-generatedTimestamp mismatch between Pre-request Script output and {{$isoTimestamp}} resolution
Postman date handling across scripts and dynamic variables Postman resolves dynamic variables such as {{$isoTimestamp}} at the moment of request transmission, producing a UTC ISO 8601 value. Pre-request Scripts, by contrast, run earlier in a JavaScript sandbox where the native Date object defaults to the local time zone of the machine running the client. The
pre-request-scripttimezone-conversiondynamic-variablesTasadduq Burneyowner19K rep · 08 May 2025, 04:08 UTC