Sometimes I end up seeing a datetime on the website frontend that has been adjusted to a specific time zone, and I want it to display as-is regardless of the user's time zone.
For example, let's say I have this date:
2015-01-22T16:11:36.36-07:00
-07:00 means it's Mountain Time, MomentJs knows this and will automatically adjust for users in other time zones. For example, let's say I display the date time with the following code:
moment('2015-01-22T16:11:36.36-07:00').format('l LT')
Users in Central Time (-06:00) will see the time as 5:11 PM instead of 4:11 PM. How do I tell MomentJs not to adjust the user's time zone and display the datetime as is?
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You can set the offset manually using the utcOffset method.
moment().utcOffset(0, true).format()
Use moment's utc() method to remove the time zone and display everything in universal time.
moment.utc('2015-01-22T16:11:36.36-07:00').format('l LT')
This will display UTC time without any time zone offset. If you want to display the time as recorded in the user/server time zone, you can parse the zone information when constructing the moment instance and have it use the time zone recorded in the parsed string.
moment.parseZone('2015-01-22T16:11:36.36-07:00').format('l LT');
Using either of these two methods, you should consider marking the time in some way to reflect the time zone it corresponds to. Failure to do so can cause a lot of confusion for the end user.
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