How to convert from UTC to local time in moment.js?

Question

I have a simple use case but I cannot figure out how to convert from GMT/UTC to local time in moment.js.

Example:

var gmtDateTime = moment.utc("2015-10-24 20:00", "YYYY-MM-DD HH").format('YYYY-MMM-DD h:mm A');

console.log(gmtDateTime) emits 2015-Oct-24 8:00 PM, which is correct. Now I simply want to convert this to my local time, which happens to be Mountain Daylight Time. So the correct converted date would be 2015-Oct-24 2:00 PM, because I am 6 hours earlier than GMT/UTC.

How can this be done simply with moment.js?

Answer 1

Try moment().local().

Example:

var gmtDateTime = moment.utc("2015-10-24 20:00", "YYYY-MM-DD HH")
var local = gmtDateTime.local().format('YYYY-MMM-DD h:mm A');