Converting UTC to Pacific time using Moment Timezone (javascript)

Issue

I am trying to set "formattedLocalTime" to the Pacific time and my 4 lines of code look as below.

Though the chrome debugger displays "locTime" as "Tue Sep 30 2014 16:17:25" which is the correct value I expect, the formattedLocalTime in the last line is "09/30/2014 11:17 pm" which is UTC time and not the timezone I have set (America/Los_Angeles) which should be "09/30/2014 4:17 pm" (4:17 instead of 11:17)

Would highly appreciate any suggestions.

var timestamp = 1412144245453;                      // Tue Sep 30 2014 23:17:25
var utc = moment.tz(timestamp, "Etc/UTC");          // Tue Sep 30 2014 23:17:25 (displayed in chrome debugger)
var locTime = utc.clone().tz("America/Los_Angeles"); // Tue Sep 30 2014 16:17:25 (displayed in chrome debugger)
var formattedLocalTime = moment(locTime).format("MM/DD/YYYY h:mm a")

Solution

You can do this in one step:

moment.tz(1412144245453, 'America/Los_Angeles').format('MM/DD/YYYY h:mm a')

OUTPUT: "09/30/2014 11:17 pm"

Also, you had evaluated the times for this timestamp incorrectly. In UTC, this timestamp is October 1st, 2014 6:17:25 AM. The corresponding Pacific time is indeed September 30th, 2014, 11:17:25 PM.

You can check this using a site like epochconverter.com, or in moment.js like so:

moment.utc(1412144245453).format()   // "2014-10-01T06:17:25+00:00"

Answered By - Matt Johnson-Pint