convert timezone issue

[Muhammad Saifuddin]

Hi,

I am facing an issue in converting datetime in current timzone.

I am receiving this date string from server in a format "2015-10-09T08:00:00" which is Central Time but when I convert this date time using new Date(strDate) in GMT+5 its returning me below which is incorrect.

var dateObj = '2015-10-09T08:00:00';
new Date(dateObj);
Fri Oct 09 2015 13:00:00 GMT+0500 (PKT)

Another way I used is to convert by adding timezone offset and its returning me right result but defiantly failed when daylight saving activated.

dateObj2 = '2015-10-09T08:00:00'+'-06:00';
new Date(dateObj2)
Fri Oct 09 2015 19:00:00 GMT+0500 (PKT)

I appreciated if you help me to suggest me efficient way to handle to timezone conversion with daylight saving?

Thank you.

[K. Tsang]

The JS Date object's toUTCString() function looks like the closest to supporting daylight saving, but not sure.

[Bear Bibeault]

When dealing with dates and time in JavaScript, you may wish to take a look at the moment.js family of libraries; particularly: http://momentjs.com/timezone/