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How to get local time from UTC using Moment.JS

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  Moment.JS is a beautiful javascript library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. This is a must have utility library when it comes to manipulating timestamps and dates in javascript. Here I will show how to get local time if you have a utc date time string. Lets say you have a UTC date-time string as  2014-02-19 05:24:32 AM and you want to determine time in your timezone then use following code: moment.utc('2014-02-19 05:24:32 AM').toDate(); toDate() method gives javascript Date() object. Below I have shared an example of how to use it. You can click on JavaScript link below to see the code.

Measure the height of keyboard on PhoneGap app using jQuery

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 I have been working on a PhoneGap project where I wanted  to scroll the content up and down whenever keyboard  appears and disappears.  After a bit of searching here and there, I found out that  whenever keyboard appears window's resize event if fired.  So to determine height of keyboard do the following steps  1. Inside device ready event store original window height  inside a window variable   window.height = $(window).height(); 2. Now on window resize event execute a callback function   $(window).resize(function(){     window.currentHeight = $(this).height();     window.heightDiff = window.height - window.currentHeight;  }); So whenever there is focus on an input element, window's resize event will be triggered which will execute above function and we will have the height of keyboard inside window.heightDiff variable. Putting it all together function onDeviceReady() { window.height = $(window).height(); $(window)