datetime - Using AngularJS date filter with UTC date

Question

I have an UTC date in milliseconds which I am passing to Angular's date filter for human formatting.

{{someDate | date:'d MMMM yyyy'}}

Awesome, except someDate is in UTC and the date filter considers it to be in local time.

How can I tell Angular that someDate is UTC?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Seems like AngularJS folks are working on it in version 1.3.0. All you need to do is adding : 'UTC' after the format string. Something like:

{{someDate | date:'d MMMM yyyy' : 'UTC'}}

As you can see in the docs, you can also play with it here: Plunker example

BTW, I think there is a bug with the Z parameter, since it still show local timezone even with 'UTC'.