How to create time in a specific time zone with moment.js

Question

I have this backend that sends me a pre formatted time in a set time zone, but without any information for the said time zone. The strings are like: \"2013-08-26 16:55:00\".

Answer 1

I had a similar issue for which i had to use New York based time so i had to consider for daylight savings. I tried using the above few answers but wasn't able to get it working. Then I solved my issue like the below code

import moment from 'moment-timezone'

const time = timestamp
const offset = moment.tz.zone('America/New_York')?.parse(time)
const date = moment(time).add(offset, 'minutes').toISOString()

this gives you an ISO string which you can use as below

moment(date).local().format('ffffdd, MMM DD YYYY, hh:mm A')

or in whatever format you would like to display it