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Date test

by Hugo Carneiro

HTML

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.22.2/moment.min.js"></script>
<h2>Original date</h2>
<div class="original-date"></div>

<h2>UTC converted date</h2>
<div class="converted-date"></div>

JavaScript

var dateString = "2018-12-11"; // 11th Dec 2018
var newDate = new Date(dateString).toUTCString();
var originalConvertedDate = moment(dateString).format("ddd Do MMM YYYY");
var convertedDate = moment(newDate).utc().format("ddd Do MMM YYYY");

$('.original-date').html(originalConvertedDate);
$('.converted-date').html(convertedDate);