DateTime convert from UTC to other timezone

Question

I am using below code to convert date time to america/Chicago but getting wrong converted time.

process.env.TZ = "UTC";
var moment = require('moment-timezone');
var startTime = (new Date('2016-04-08 17:40:04')).toISOString();s
var newDateTime = moment(startTime);
var newDateTime = newDateTime.tz('America/Chicago').format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:ss a');
console.log(newDateTime); // expected 2016-04-08 12:40:04 PM
                          // getting  2016-04-08 12:04:04 pm

Answer 1

You use the wrong format string, MM means Month number , you need to use mm - Minutes .

var newDateTime = newDateTime.tz('America/Chicago').format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss a');

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