moment: BUG: fromNow() doesn't take care the timezone

How to reproduce I have a variable created returned from server in UTC format, example: 2018-02-15T00:30:31Z I want to display the time interval from created to user’s local time this is my code:

1:   moment(_created_).local().fromNow()

2:   moment(moment(_created_).local().toISOString()).fromNow()

3:   var usertimezone = moment.tz.guess()
     var value = moment.utc(_created_)
     var formatDate = moment.tz(value, usertimezone)
     return formatDate.fromNow()

All don’t work. I googled 3 hours, tons of people are bothered by this problem since 2013, and there is no solution, and this bug is not fixed.

Which is kind of disappointing for such a famous package.

Environment: Chrome 53 on OSX

If you are reporting an issue, please run the following code in the environment you are using and include the output:

console.log( (new Date()).toString())
console.log((new Date()).toLocaleString())
console.log( (new Date()).getTimezoneOffset())
console.log( navigator.userAgent)
console.log(moment.version)

Sat Feb 17 2018 03:45:28 GMT-0500 (EST)
2 2/17/2018, 3:45:28 AM
300
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.167 Safari/537.36
2.20.1

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State: closed
Created 6 years ago
Comments: 18 (7 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

@C0deZLee I thought of a couple more things to try.

Can you try these:

console.log(moment.locale());
console.log(moment().subtract(2, 'hours').fromNow());
console.log(moment(moment().subtract(2, 'hours')).fromNow());
console.log(moment(moment().subtract(2, 'hours').toISOString()).fromNow());

ashsearle on Feb 22, 2018

Hi 😃 I was having the same issue and solved it by using: moment(moment(date).local()).fromNow()

kyec1118 on May 19, 2021