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
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
I’ve never had to convert time to and from UTC. Recently had a request to have my app be timezone aware, and I’ve been running myself in circles. Lots of information on converting local time to UTC, which I found fairly elementary (maybe I’m doing that wrong as well), but I can not find any … Read more
I have a time in UTC from which I want the number of seconds since epoch. I am using strftime to convert it to the number of seconds. Taking 1st April 2012 as an example. >>>datetime.datetime(2012,04,01,0,0).strftime(‘%s’) ‘1333234800’ 1st of April 2012 UTC from epoch is 1333238400 but this above returns 1333234800 which is different by … Read more
We are developing a C# application for a web-service client. This will run on Windows XP PC’s. One of the fields returned by the web service is a DateTime field. The server returns a field in GMT format i.e. with a “Z” at the end. However, we found that .NET seems to do some kind … Read more
I am dealing with dates in Python and I need to convert them to UTC timestamps to be used inside Javascript. The following code does not work: >>> d = datetime.date(2011,01,01) >>> datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(time.mktime(d.timetuple())) datetime.datetime(2010, 12, 31, 23, 0) Converting the date object first to datetime also does not help. I tried the example at this … Read more
I have been fighting with this for a bit now. I’m trying to convert epoch to a date object. The epoch is sent to me in UTC. Whenever you pass new Date() an epoch, it assumes it’s local epoch. I tried creating a UTC object, then using setTime() to adjust it to the proper epoch, … Read more
How do I convert a datetime string in local time to a string in UTC time? I’m sure I’ve done this before, but can’t find it and SO will hopefully help me (and others) do that in future. Clarification: For example, if I have 2008-09-17 14:02:00 in my local timezone (+10), I’d like to generate … Read more
From the server I get a datetime variable in this format: 6/29/2011 4:52:48 PM and it is in UTC time. I want to convert it to the current user’s browser time zone using JavaScript. How this can be done using JavaScript or jQuery? 38 Answers 38
Suppose a user of your website enters a date range. 2009-1-1 to 2009-1-3 You need to send this date to a server for some processing, but the server expects all dates and times to be in UTC. Now suppose the user is in Alaska. Since they are in a timezone quite different from UTC, the … Read more
