Implement timezone interface

[timrwood]

This is the initial pass at implementing moment/moment-rfcs#1

This introduces an interface for a TimeZone in moment core. Moment would provide 2 classes that implement the TimeZone interface, LocalTimeZone and FixedOffsetTimeZone. Libraries like moment-timezone could provide their own TZDBTimeZone class that implements the TimeZone interface.

Each moment created now has a mandatory time zone. Calls to moment() would have a LocalTimeZone instance, calls to moment.utc() would have a FixedOffsetTimeZone instance, and calls to moment.tz() would have a TZDBTimeZone instance.

To support this, we will no longer be using the local timezone Date.prototype getters and setters. All calls to the underlying date object use the setUTC* and getUTC* methods, and parsing is done with Date.UTC(). We will continue to store the _offset property on a moment to determine what the offset is.

Public API Additions

moment.withTimeZone(timeZone)

This is the public api for moment-timezone and other libraries to construct a moment in a timezone. It returns a function that can be used just like moment() or moment.utc().

var create = moment.withTimeZone(chicagoTimeZone);
var nowInChicago = create();
var decemberInChicago = create("2016 décembre", "YYYY MMMM", "fr");

Private API Removals

moment.updateOffset hook.

This was build as an undocumented api for use by moment-timezone. We are moving the code for manually adjusting the offset into moment, so there is no need for an external library to handle this logic.

moment#_useUTC

This is used by the parser to determine whether to use new Date(y, m, d...) or Date.UTC(y, m, d) when constructing the Date. We are always using Date.UTC(y, m, d), so this is no longer needed.

moment#_isUTC

This was used to switch between calls to Date#getMonth and Date#getUTCMonth, but we are always using Date#getUTCMonth, so this is unneeded.

moment.momentProperties

This added for moment timezone to copy the _z property when cloning a moment, but now that timezones are a core concept for moment, a moment-timezone moment will behave the same as all other moments.

Public API Deprecations

moment#isLocal, moment#isUtc, moment#isUtcOffset

These methods don't really match the semantics of the new timezone interface. They were added because we had internal flags that toggled between different modes. A better interface would be something like moment#timezone() === 'local'.

Open Questions

This adds moment.withTimeZone as partial application for the timezone, should we expand that to format, locale, and strict parsing?

var create = moment.withDefaults({
  zone: chicagoTimeZone,
  locale: "fr",
  format: "YYYY MMMM",
  strict: true
});
var novemberInChicago = create("2016 novembre");
var decemberInChicago = create("2016 décembre");

Should we add a getter/setter for timezones? Should it publicly reference timezones with strings instead of objects?

moment().timezone('local');
moment().timezone('UTC+1');
moment().timezone('America/Los_Angeles');
moment().timezone(); // 'local'
moment.withTimeZone('America/Los_Angeles').timezone(); // 'America/Los_Angeles'
moment.utc().timezone(); // 'UTC'

To support this, we could provide an api to register callbacks to be used to resolve the timezone string.

moment.defineTimezone(function (input) {
  if (input === 'local') {
    return new LocalTimeZone();
  }
});
moment.defineTimezone(function (input) {
  if (matchesFixedOffsetFormat(input)) {
    return new FixedOffsetTimeZone(input);
  }
});
// moment timezone
moment.defineTimezone(function (input) {
  if (zones[input]) {
    return zones[input];
  }
});

The timezone resolver would just loop through all the callbacks, returning the first timezone that matched.

[icambron]

So, I think this interface should be function(year, month, day, hour, minute, second, millisecond). The part that confuses me is where the timestamp being passed in is, like, not actually the timestamp we're computing offset for (it's the timestamp that has the same UTC year/month/etc as the time we're actually using). So I think it's more clear if Moment calls this with:

someTZ.parse(_d.getUTCFullYear(), _d.getUTCMonth(), ...)

and then this thing just does:

return getTimezoneOffset(new Date(year, month, day, hour, minute, second, millisecond))

That also saves you one date creation, which is nice.

[maggiepint]

You know what, I'm putting a release tag on this. We can't sit on it forever, it's a positive change, and those who patched private variables on a library can learn.
Let me know if there are any objections. Obviously, Tim has to get moment timezone ready for this change.

[mj1856]

If we merge this now, we'll break moment-timezone. So staging for v3 until we can figure out when to do them both together.

[icambron]

See rebased version in #3807.