Create Moment from UTC string?

You would need to write the code to parse this yourself.

When working with a time, many webservices return a time stamp in "unix time" which is the number of seconds since Jan1 1970 00:00 UTC.

It's easy to deal with and can be easily converted into a moment (and possibly a string).  Like this:

			if(ob["epoch"]!=null) {
				var ts=ob["epoch"].toNumber();
				wtime=Helper.timeStr(ts);					
			}

With Timestr being:

    function timeStr(ts) {
		ts=new Time.Moment(ts);
		var ts2=Calendar.info(ts, Time.FORMAT_MEDIUM);
		var hour=ts2.hour;
		var ampm="";
		if(!Sys.getDeviceSettings().is24Hour) {
			if(hour>11) {ampm="p";} else {ampm="a";}
			hour=hour%12;
			if(hour==0) {hour=12;}
		}
		return hour.format("%d")+":"+ts2.min.format("%02d")+ampm;
	}

With a result being a string with the local time, in 12/24 hr format as set on the watch.

Anyone found anything easier for this?

I ended up writing something like the below where I basically used snippets of the UTC string as inputs to create a moment. I also adjusted for time zone manually as I did not found any documentation around creating moments with timezone adjustment parameters. Cheers.

var options = {
    :year => timeStamp.substring(0, 4).toNumber(),
    :month => timeStamp.substring(5, 7).toNumber(),
    :day => timeStamp.substring(8, 10).toNumber(),
    :hour => timeStamp.substring(11, 13).toNumber(),
    :minute => timeStamp.substring(14, 16).toNumber(),
    :second => timeStamp.substring(17, 19).toNumber()
};
var adjustGMT8 = new Time.Duration(28800);
var timeMoment = Gregorian.moment(options).subtract(adjustGMT8);

This is probably pretty close to what you need to do. In an ideal world, you'd parse the time zone offset (instead of hard-coding it as you've done above). Another potential issue is that there are many different formats for ISO8601 date-time strings, and it is a pain in the neck if you want to handle all of them.

I'll try to throw some code together tonight. Maybe it will be helpful.