title: Javascript countdown with specific timezone
body: <p>I found this piece of Javascript on StackOverFlow which displays a live countdown to a specific date.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;script&gt;
  var end = new Date('02/19/2012 10:1 AM');
  
      var _second = 1000;
      var _minute = _second * 60;
      var _hour = _minute * 60;
      var _day = _hour * 24;
      var timer;
  
      function showRemaining() {
          var now = new Date();
          var distance = end - now;
          if (distance &lt; 0) {
  
              clearInterval(timer);
              document.getElementById('countdown').innerHTML = 'EXPIRED!';
  
              return;
          }
          var days = Math.floor(distance / _day);
          var hours = Math.floor((distance % _day) / _hour);
          var minutes = Math.floor((distance % _hour) / _minute);
          var seconds = Math.floor((distance % _minute) / _second);
  
          document.getElementById('countdown').innerHTML = days + ' Days ';
          document.getElementById('countdown').innerHTML += hours + ' Hours ';
          document.getElementById('countdown').innerHTML += minutes + ' Minutes ';
          document.getElementById('countdown').innerHTML += seconds + ' Seconds';
      }
  
      timer = setInterval(showRemaining, 1000);
  &lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;div id="countdown"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, I want to make it so that the time it uses is EST. So that if people view the counter from different timezones, they will see the same thing. How can I accomplish this? I'm new to JavaScript and I don't know where to go from here.</p>