How to ignore user's time zone and force Date() use specific time zone with JavaScript?

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To ignore user’s time zone and force Date() use specific time zone with JavaScript, we can use the moment timezone library.

To install it, we run

npm install moment-timezone --save

Then we write

const moment = require("moment-timezone");
const d = moment(1270544790922)
  .tz("Europe/London")
  .format("YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss");

to call moment with a timestamp in milliseconds.

And we set the time zone of the datetime with the tz method.

Then we call format to return a datetime string with the value returned by tz.

By John Au-Yeung