MomentJS getting JavaScript Date in UTC

Question

I am not able to get the JavaScript Date string for MongoDB record via the following. It keeps using my local time.

var utc = moment.utc().valueOf();
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Answer 1

Calling toDate will create a copy (the documentation is down-right wrong about it not being a copy), of the underlying JS Date object. JS Date object is stored in UTC and will always print to eastern time. Without getting into whether .utc() modifies the underlying object that moment wraps use the code below.

You don't need moment for this.

new Date().getTime()

This works, because JS Date at its core is in UTC from the Unix Epoch. It's extraordinarily confusing and I believe a big flaw in the interface to mix local and UTC times like this with no descriptions in the methods.