I’m using Moment.js to parse and format dates in my web app. As part of a JSON object, my backend server sends dates as a number of milliseconds from the UTC epoch (Unix offset). Parsing dates in a specific timezone is easy — just append the RFC 822 timezone identifier to the end of the … Read more
I have a column of the TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE type and would like to have that default to the current time in UTC. Getting the current time in UTC is easy: postgres=# select now() at time zone ‘utc’; timezone —————————- 2013-05-17 12:52:51.337466 (1 row) As is using the current timestamp for a column: postgres=# … Read more
How do I set the default timezone in node.js? 17 Answers 17
Are timestamp values stored differently in PostgreSQL when the data type is WITH TIME ZONE versus WITHOUT TIME ZONE? Can the differences be illustrated with simple test cases? 6 Answers 6
I have parsed a java.util.Date from a String but it is setting the local time zone as the time zone of the date object. The time zone is not specified in the String from which Date is parsed. I want to set a specific time zone of the date object. How can I do that? … Read more
Anyone knows if there is such a function in MySQL? UPDATE This doesn’t output any valid info: mysql> SELECT @@global.time_zone, @@session.time_zone; +——————–+———————+ | @@global.time_zone | @@session.time_zone | +——————–+———————+ | SYSTEM | SYSTEM | +——————–+———————+ Or maybe MySQL itself can’t know exactly the time_zone used,that’s fine, we can involve PHP here, as long as I can … Read more
I have a python datetime instance that was created using datetime.utcnow() and persisted in database. For display, I would like to convert the datetime instance retrieved from the database to local datetime using the default local timezone (i.e., as if the datetime was created using datetime.now()). How can I convert the UTC datetime to a … Read more
Can someone please point me to a complete list of all the timezones referenced by the id expected in TimeZoneInfo.FindTimeZoneById()? I can’t find a list anywhere and I’ve looked through the .NET documentation. 14 Answers 14
I got this error when I requested to update the PHP version from 5.2.17 to PHP 5.3.21 on the server. <div style=”border:1px solid #990000;padding-left:20px;margin:0 0 10px 0;”> <h4>A PHP Error was encountered</h4> <p>Severity: Warning</p> <p>Message: date(): It is not safe to rely on the system’s timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting … Read more
Given the latitude and longitude of a location, how does one know what time zone is in effect in that location? In most cases, we are looking for an IANA/Olson time zone id, although some services may return just a UTC offset, or some other time zone identifier. Please read the timezone tag info for … Read more
