Moment converting wrong time.

[mahadazad]

Hello I am trying to convert UTC time to "Canada/Eastern" and its converting time one hour behind

> moment('2016-09-01T18:04:01Z').tz('Canada/Eastern').format();
> "2016-09-01T14:04:01-04:00"

but the actual time should bd 15:04:01

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converted.html?iso=20160901T1805&p1=0&p2=286

[mattjohnsonpint]

Canada/Eastern is an alias for America/Toronto. You picked Halifax on the t&d link, which is in Atlantic time, not Eastern time.

Refer to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones

And in general, you should prefer canonical locality-based zone identifiers rather than legacy links.

[mattjohnsonpint]

Also, your code would be slightly cleaner as:

moment.tz('2016-09-01T18:04:01Z', 'Canada/Eastern').format();

Not that the other way is wrong, just it has an interim state where the moment is in local time. This way the moment is constructed in the original time zone.

[mahadazad]

@mj1856 Ok thanks for the info. By the way I was using moment.tz.names() method to pull the time zones, but seems it also returns the deprecated ones. Is it some other way which can help me pull only valid time zones not the deprecated ones?

[mattjohnsonpint]

@mahadazad - there's an item open for that in #227. We currently aren't working on it actively, but will always take a PR if someone is inclined to attempt it. :)