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moment.fromNow() timezone issue

I am getting post of news from server with date that doesnt includes timezone, i know that posts is from EST time zone, example : March 30, 2020 at 10:53 AM (-5 GMT); When post was just updated like few seconds ago moment.fromNow() showing me it was posted like 8 hours ago becasue i am living in +3 GMT. What should i do so that moment.fromNow() showing right time posts was updated without taking difference in time zones. Sorry for my english. My code: 

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const dateMoment = moment(date, 'MMMM DD, YYYY h:mm A');
news.date = dateMoment.toDate();
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//in component

<Text style={styles.cardDate}> {moment(news.date).fromNow()} </Text> //getting text '8 hours ago' even if it was posted right now 
...

 {moment(news.date).tz('America/New_York').fromNow()} // didn't work too, still 8 hours difference
Solution

  • It was my mistake. I parsed date wrong. The right way was : 

    const dateMoment = moment(date, 'MMMM DD, YYYY h:mm A').tz('America/New_York', true);
news.date = dateMoment.toDate();

    I should have set keepLocalTime to true in tz(timezone: string, keepLocalTime?: boolean): moment.Moment.

    Now i just use in component: 

    <Text style={styles.cardDate}> {moment(news.date).fromNow()} </Text>

    And actualy timezone was wrong too, it's not New York it's LA...