As described in the timezone tag wiki, there are two different styles of time zones. Those provided by Microsoft for use with Windows and the .Net TimeZoneInfo class (when running on Windows) are identified by a value such as “Eastern Standard Time”. Those provided by IANA in the TZDB, and used by the .NET TimeZoneInfo … Read more
I want the server to always serve dates in UTC in the HTML, and have JavaScript on the client site convert it to the user’s local timezone. Bonus if I can output in the user’s locale date format. 17 Answers 17
I have SimpleDateFormat constructor as SimpleDateFormat(“yyyy-MM-dd’T’HH:mm:ss’Z'”) and I am parsing string “2013-09-29T18:46:19Z”. I have read that here Z represents the GMT/UTC timezone. but when I print this date on console , It prints IST timezne for the returned date. Now my question is whether my output is right or wrong? 8 Answers 8
How do I change time and time zone in the iPhone simulator? 12 Answers 12
I know how to get the timezone offset, but what I need is the ability to detect something like “America/New York.” Is that even possible from JavaScript or is that something I am going to have to guestimate based on the offset? 9 Answers 9
In my django project’s settings.py file, I have this line : TIME_ZONE = ‘UTC’ But I want my app to run in UTC+2 timezone, so I changed it to TIME_ZONE = ‘UTC+2’ It gives the error ValueError: Incorrect timezone setting: UTC+2. What is the correct way of doing this? Thanks! 12 Answers 12
I’m trying to create a unit test to test the case for when the timezone changes on a machine because it has been incorrectly set and then corrected. In the test I need to be able to create DateTime objects in a none local time zone to ensure that people running the test can do … Read more
While writing a web application, it makes sense to store (server side) all datetimes in the DB as UTC timestamps. I was astonished when I noticed that you couldn’t natively do much in terms of Timezone manipulation in JavaScript. I extended the Date object a little. Does this function make sense? Basically, every time I … Read more
As the subject asks; do UNIX timestamps change in each timezone? For example, if I sent a request to another email the other side of the world saying, “Send out an email when the time is 1397484936”, would the other server’s timestamp be 12 hours behind my own? 6 Answers 6
I have a CSV dumpfile from a Blackberry IPD backup, created using IPDDump. The date/time strings in here look something like this (where EST is an Australian time-zone): Tue Jun 22 07:46:22 EST 2010 I need to be able to parse this date in Python. At first, I tried to use the strptime() function from … Read more
