Convert utc date to local date using momentjs

Question

I have a DateTime string like 2/24/2017 17:00:00 which comes from a web service. The time is UTC time. Now i want to convert it to user's local time and display it in browser. And i'm using Moment.js .

I've tried:

var utcTime= moment('2/24/2017 17:00:00' + " +0000", "MM/DD/YYYY HH:mm:ss Z");

var localTime = utcTime.add(new Date().getTimezoneOffset().toString(), 'm').toDate();

It will work but somehow looks strange. Am i missing something? Is there a better way to do this?

Answer 1

Write it like this:

moment.utc('2/24/2017 17:00:00', "MM/DD/YYYY HH:mm:ss").local().format('lll');

Reference: http://momentjs.com/