Displaying formatted dates in the user's time zone
In this recipe, we will learn how to format the user's date in their local time zone and display it; additionally, we are going to see how dates are used and represented in JavaScript. The best way to do this is to have the user pick the time zone in which they would like the dates to be displayed, but unfortunately, this is rarely an option.
Getting ready
Just like most programming languages, JavaScript uses Unix time. This is actually a system for representing a given instance of time, for how many seconds or, in JavaScript's case, milliseconds have passed since midnight January 1, 1970 in Universal Coordinated Time, commonly known as UTC.
Note
Some fun trivia regarding UTC: the abbreviation is ...
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