get time depending upon long form time zone name

[SanthoshBanavath]

Can we have the functionality to use the full timezone name (Eastern Standard Time, India Standard Time...etc)?
moment.tz('India Standard Time') for UTC+5:30 and so on.

[icellan]

This should really be in the list of timezones

[georgesiosi]

India is a pretty large part of the world. Don't know why this isn't already included? Voting +1 for getting this added.

[gilmoreorless]

India is a pretty large part of the world. Don't know why this isn't already included? Voting +1 for getting this added.

@siosism This issue isn't about adding data for India; that's already available by using the id Asia/Kolkata.

From what I can see, this issue is about getting existing data by using different input strings, effectively as aliases. Unfortunately, as detailed in #760 (comment), these long-form names aren't available in the IANA time zone database that Moment Timezone relies on. Partly this is because the names change per locale. For example:

Locale	Name
en (English)	India Standard Time
es (Spanish)	hora estándar de la India
fr (French)	heure de l’Inde
de (German)	Indische Zeit

To get this data into Moment Timezone correctly would require integrating the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR). This is not a simple task, and my guess is it's way out of scope for the maintenance-only status of this project.

[ichernev]

If you insist, just use the moment.tz.link feature and add aliases yourself (for your project), just don't expect us to maintain such a list.