moment.fromNow() timezone issue

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I am getting post of news from server with date that doesnt includes timezone, i know that posts is from EST time zone, example : March 30, 2020 at 10:53 AM (-5 GMT); When post was just updated like few seconds ago moment.fromNow() showing me it was posted like 8 hours ago becasue i am living in +3 GMT. What should i do so that moment.fromNow() showing right time posts was updated without taking difference in time zones. Sorry for my english. My code:

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const dateMoment = moment(date, 'MMMM DD, YYYY h:mm A');
news.date = dateMoment.toDate();
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//in component

<Text style={styles.cardDate}> {moment(news.date).fromNow()} </Text> //getting text '8 hours ago' even if it was posted right now 
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 {moment(news.date).tz('America/New_York').fromNow()} // didn't work too, still 8 hours difference

You probably want [`from`](https://momentjs.com/docs/#/displaying/from/), and that value of now in EST. — Heretic Monkey, Mar 31 '20 at 12:51

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 31 '20 at 11:28

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If you want to convert the time to a specific timezone, you can try giving it a utcOffset, like -

{ moment(news.date).utcOffset('-05:00').fromNow() }

answered Mar 31 '20 at 11:28

Vandesh

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did not work, sadly, i tryed variants from here too: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18752366/using-timezones-with-moment-js-fromnow-or-from , nothing working for me – Michail Pidgorodetskiy Apr 02 '20 at 22:32

score -1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 02 '20 at 23:44

It was my mistake. I parsed date wrong. The right way was :

const dateMoment = moment(date, 'MMMM DD, YYYY h:mm A').tz('America/New_York', true);
news.date = dateMoment.toDate();

I should have set keepLocalTime to true in tz(timezone: string, keepLocalTime?: boolean): moment.Moment.

Now i just use in component:

<Text style={styles.cardDate}> {moment(news.date).fromNow()} </Text>

And actualy timezone was wrong too, it's not New York it's LA...

moment.fromNow() timezone issue

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