Moment-timezone: Get offset in seconds from a specific timezone to utc

[nodesocket]

I am trying to get the offset in seconds from America/New_York to UTC, and according to the doc I should be able to do:

moment.tz('America/New_York').utcOffset()

But I am getting:

moment.tz is not a function

[mj1856]

1. You need to load both moment and moment-timezone. It sounds like you only have moment loaded.
2. You can't get an offset from a time zone without a specific moment in time. Many time zones have changed their offsets over their history, or use a different offset when DST is in effect.

[mj1856]

Note, the syntax you showed here is valid - but it uses the _current_ offset, because no date or time information was passed in the tz function.

[RangerMauve]

Hi, sorry to bump this, but could you provide an example of how to actually supply the instant in time to use? For example, the current time?

[erakis]

@RangerMauve

moment.tz(moment.utc(), 'America/New_York').utcOffset()
// -240 min