I have this backend that sends me a pre formatted time in a set time zone, but without any information for the said time zone. The strings are like: 2013-08-26 16:55:00.

I can create a new moment.js instance with this string:

var time = moment(2013-08-26 16:55:00) //this creates time in my tz

but this will only create an instance in my own time zone.

Moment.js have a plugin that can create instances of the object in specific time zones and it works great, but I can't say what time I want the object to point to.

If I'm in New York and I do this:

var time = moment(2013-08-26 16:55:00).tz(America/Los_Angeles);

the resulting time will be 13:55 instead of 16:55 but in LA.

What I want is to create an instance that will say 16:55, but in LA time.

The reason I'm asking is because I want to do this:

var now = moment.tz(America/Los_Angeles);

var end = moment(2013-08-26 16:55:00); //plus something to convert LA time



var timeLeft = end.diff(now, minutes);

Is there a way to do that?