# Eastern Date Time

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/eastern-date-time/259214>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 2, 2008, 4:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/eastern-date-time/259214 "2008-05-02T04:11:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![bpdp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c0e974/32.png) [@bpdp](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bpdp)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 4:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/eastern-date-time/259214/1 "2008-05-02T04:11:03Z")

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I’m sorry to ask such a stupid question but the documentation is not clear to me. And I really don’t want to screw it up.

I am creating a flash piece that needs to change its content based on the date eastern time. so that the content on monday 00:00:00 will be different than the content sunday 11:59:59. I have everything set up for local time ie:

```auto

var currentDate:Date = new Date();

```

But do to legal issues involved I need to set this up so that even if the user is in Alaska the content will change based on Eastern Standard Time.

I’m sure I can use timeZoneOffset, but I’m just not sure how to implement it. Any insight would be great

thanks.