diff --git a/util.js b/util.js
index e684a03..644382f 100644
--- a/util.js
+++ b/util.js
@@ -19,7 +19,10 @@ export const jsonDb = async file => {
   return db;
 };
 
+// date and time as UTC (no timezone offset) in nicely readable and sortable format, e.g., 2022-10-06 12:05:27.313
 export const datetime = (d = new Date()) => d.toISOString().replace('T', ' ').replace('Z', '');
+// same as datetime() but for local timezone, e.g., UTC + 2h for the above in DE
+export const datetimeLocal = (d = new Date()) => datetime(new Date(d.getTime() - new Date().getTimezoneOffset() * 60000));
 export const filenamify = s => s.replaceAll(':', '.').replace(/[^a-z0-9 _\-.]/gi, '_'); // alternative: https://www.npmjs.com/package/filenamify - On Unix-like systems, / is reserved. On Windows, <>:"/\|?* along with trailing periods are reserved.
 
 // stealth with playwright: https://github.com/berstend/puppeteer-extra/issues/454#issuecomment-917437212