How can I make AngularJS simply print the date without applying a time zone ?

Issue

I return from WEBapi a date like

2013-01-01T00:00:00

And I want

  {{msa.StartDate | date:'yyyy-MM'}} 

To be

2013-01

But because it wants to take my current time zone in consideration (US eastern) it is

2012-12

Is there a easy way to tell it DO NOT CARE ABOUT TIMEZONES? Or is there some other filter I can run the date through to ignore my time zone?

Solution

As it is described in documentation "If no timezone is specified in the string input, the time is considered to be in the local timezone." (http://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng.filter:date). So you can set time zone yourself. For example this will use UTC time zone

{{'2013-01-01T00:00:00' + 'Z' | date:'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm'}}

Result (I'm on the West Coast and have 8 hours difference with London)

2012-12-31 16:00

Answered By - webdev