I have a simple php script that returns time in a following format:
date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Tokyo');
echo (new DateTime())->format('F d, Y H:i:s O');
the output of it is:
October 01, 2015 18:34:35 +0900
Now I fetch this data in my jquery script and I want to create a new Date() object from this string. However, I don't know how to include the timezone there. So far I'm doing like this:
var serverTime = "October 01, 2015 18:34:35 +0900";//fetched from server
var timezone = serverTime.substr(serverTime.length - 5);
var substractedDate = serverTime.substr(0, serverTime.length - 5);
var tokyoTime = new Date(substractedDate);
alert(tokyoTime);
but it shows me:
Thu Oct 01 2015 18:40:34 GMT+0200 (Central Europe Daylight Time)
How can I create a date like this:
Thu Oct 01 2015 18:40:34 GMT+0900 (Asian...)
?