Change Timezone for Date variable

Question

I have a string, and I have converted it into a Date variable. But the timezone is turning out to be wrong.

The string I\'m trying to use is :

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Answer 1

2013/09/05 17:53 -05:00 is the same time as Thu Sep 05 2013 18:53:00 GMT-0400; both are Thu, 05 Sep 2013 22:53:00 GMT

In JavaScript, you have two choices (natively) about how to display a time; in the local machine's timezone (Date.prototype.toString) or in UTC (Date.prototype.toUTCString). If you want to display a time as a string with a different time zone, you will have to write a function to do it manually, calculating it from UTC.

The two main articles on MDN which will help you with how to use a Date are Date and Date.prototype.