title: How to assume local time zone when parsing ISO 8601 date string?
body: <p>I have a ISO date string as below</p>
  
  <pre><code> var startTimeISOString = "2013-03-10T02:00:00Z";
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  <p>when I convert it to date object in javascript using below code, it returns</p>
  
  <pre><code>var startTimeDate = new Date(startTimeISOString);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong><em>output is</em></strong> </p>
  
  <pre><code>Date {Sun Mar 10 2013 07:30:00 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)}
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  <p>It sure converts the <strong>ISOString</strong> to date but it converts to local time since <code>new Date()</code> is client dependent. How to just convert iso date time string to date and time but not to local date-time..?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>