How to set date always to eastern time regardless of user's time zone

Question

I have a date given to me by a server in unix time: 1458619200000

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Answer 1

For dayLight saving, Eastern time become 4 hours behind UTC thats why its offset is -4x60 = -240 minutes. So when Day light is not active the offset will be -300. easternTimeOffset variable value is the key point to be noted here. Kindly see this code in action in attached image.

       var offset = new Date().getTimezoneOffset();// getting offset to make time in gmt+0 zone (UTC) (for gmt+5 offset comes as -300 minutes)
        var date = new Date();
        date.setMinutes ( date.getMinutes() + offset);// date now in UTC time

        var easternTimeOffset = -240; //for dayLight saving, Eastern time become 4 hours behind UTC thats why its offset is -4x60 = -240 minutes. So when Day light is not active the offset will be -300
        date.setMinutes ( date.getMinutes() + easternTimeOffset);