How do I set a time zone for a JavaScript date?

Question

I'm trying to do a countdown timer in JavaScript, using countdown, but I want the Date object to be relative to a particular time zone.

How can I make sure that my countdown is relative to a specific time/date in a specific time zone?

depends on source and type of initial date value. Please expand on use case — charlietfl, Aug 21 '15 at 17:17
Maybe this could help: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/convert-the-local-time-to-another-time-zone-with-this-javascript/6016329/ — VVV, Aug 21 '15 at 17:19
Take a look at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15141762/how-to-initialize-javascript-date-to-a-particular-timezone — Zakaria Acharki, Aug 21 '15 at 17:21
You need to add momentJS library along with this. Check this example of plugin: http://hilios.github.io/jQuery.countdown/examples/timezone-aware.html — Chitrang, Aug 21 '15 at 17:23

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 21 '15 at 17:31

As shown in the example of countdown plugin (http://hilios.github.io/jQuery.countdown/examples/timezone-aware.html), you need to add MomentJS library to set Date object relative to a particular time zone.

HTML:

<div id="clock"></div>

JS:

var nextYear = moment.tz("2015-08-22 00:00", "America/Sao_Paulo");

$('#clock').countdown(nextYear.toDate(), function(event) {
    $(this).html(event.strftime('%D days %H:%M:%S'));
});

JSFiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/kbk798py/

How do I set a time zone for a JavaScript date?

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