Create a local date from a UTC date string in Moment.js

Question

Given a UTC date string (formatted: YYYYMMDDHHmmss) I\'d like to create a date with the local timezone using Moment.js. I have tried the following:

var utcDateSt         


        

Answer 1

// UTC time
var utcDateStr = '20140101120000';

// First way
var offset = moment().utcOffset();
var localtime = moment.utc(utcDateStr,'YYYYMMDDHHmmss').utcOffset(offset);

// Another way
var anotherLocaltime= moment.utc(utcDateStr, 'YYYYMMDDHHmmss').local();

Both the way works just fine... See the JsFiddle

Answer 2

Just use the .local() function, added in version 1.5.0.

var localDate = moment.utc(utcDateStr, 'YYYYMMDDHHmmss').local();