How do I create a date in a specific timezone?

[chalupagrande]

I have a date like: 2025-01-08T18:00

How do I tell date-fns that this is in America/Chicago timezone?

[jawnothin]

I came here to get the answer to that specific question... because right now it just assumes the timezone on the local device, which may or may not be correct.

[cbejensen]

Seems like TZDate reads ISO-like strings as UTC or local, while passing in the elements as individual args achieves the desired result:

console.log(new TZDate(2025, 0, 8, 18, 'America/Chicago').toString());
// Wed Jan 08 2025 18:00:00 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time)