I am getting wrong date after converting by moment.js

Question

My code is

console.log(moment(new Date('2016-05-24T18:50:05.000')).format('LL'));

It should be 24 may 2016 but it gives me 25 may 2016 .

Can any one help me.

Answer 1

You need to specify the date as UTC.

You can do so in either of the following ways:

console.log(moment(new Date('2016-05-24T18:50:05.000Z')).format('LL'));

Where, the Z specifies that the time is UTC. Or:

console.log(moment.utc(new Date('2016-05-24T18:50:05.000')).format('LL'));

You can pass an ISO 8601 date string to moment directly.

There is no need to wrap the string in a javascript Date object. Then your code becomes:

console.log(moment('2016-05-24T18:50:05.000Z').format('LL'));

Or:

console.log(moment.utc('2016-05-24T18:50:05.000').format('LL'));