Changing the Utc Date to Local Date using moment.js

Question

i'm using moment.js with timezones for date manipulation in a webapp. i'm storing all the dates in UTC and return them to UI as UTC. I'm having the timezone of the user. i want to convert the UTC time to the local Users time zone.

var timezone = "America/New_York";
var utcDate = "2013-10-16T10:31:59.0537721Z";

var localDate = moment(utcDate).utc().tz(timezone).format()

When i try to do this i'm getting wrong time. not sure how to get this working with moment

Answer 1

You can try:

moment.utc(utcDate).tz(timezone).format()

But it shouldn't matter. They should both produce: "2013-10-16T06:31:59-04:00".

It works for me, running on Chrome 30, so it's probably browser related.

If you're running Moment.js 2.3.1 or earlier on IE8, then it's a side effect of issue #1175, which was fixed in 2.4.0. Updating to the latest version should solve the problem.

Answer 2

Use the + operator to get unix time, then:

moment(+moment.utc(utcDate))

How it works:

• moment.utc(String) parses the string and returns a moment object set to UTC timezone.
• + returns the unix offset in milliseconds for the moment obejct
• moment(Number) creates a new moment object in the user's local time zone, using the passed in unix offset.