can 2 timezone be for 1 city?
I want to know if there can be 2 or more GMT timezones for one city or state. I know there can be more then one GMT timezone for a country, but not sure if it's for state and city too. Share your knowledge please. ...
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Matching GPS tracks to local days
I'm writing a geotagging app and running into headaches with timezones. Basically, my app has the following data: Images with local timestamps (i.e. relative to a timezone) GPS track files consisting of entries using UTC timestamps My problem: I need a way to get all data that belongs to a give day, based on the timezone where the da...
Is the GWT TimeZone offset backwards?
I'm using com.google.gwt.i18n.client.timezone to try and display a date (as at the server), but GWT automatically adds the current timezone to the date when formatting it, meaning The wrong date is shown in different timezones. To combat this, I'm sending the server's timezone offset to the client and using that when formatting. I live...
Delphi routine which retrieve the current time and date from a time server
I am looking for a Delphi 7 routine which connects to a time server to retrieve the correct time and date, and a routine to update the time and date of the pc. The routine should of course take into account the time zone the pc is using. If possible using the ICS component suite from Overbyte (because I use this set of free components ...
linux - detecting change of system time
Is there a way to get notified when there is update to the system time from a time-server or due to DST change? I am after an API/system call or equivalent. It is part or my effort to optimize generating a value for something similar to SQL NOW() to an hour granularity, without using SQL. ...
PHP ini date.timezone? Server or client location time zone?
I know this might sound a silly question, but I did not find in PHP documentation somewhere were they state loud and clear this one. I have got a web application. Users of my web appliations are in Europe, but the server running the web appliation is in US. How should I set the date.timezone php ini directive??? I suppose to where th...
Is this a php bug, or is something wrong with my timezone/PHP settings?
The real, full contents of the file: <?php error_reporting(E_ALL); ini_set(display_errors, 'on'); try { //$x = strtotime('blah'); $x = new DateTime('lol'); } catch ( Exception $e ) { echo $e->getMessage(); } The DateTime constructor accepts a string, which should throw an exception if it can't parse it. This runs f...
.Net TimeZoneInfo ID - Is it Windows Language Specific?
I'm using the .net TimeZoneInfo FindSystemTimeZoneById method which I understand queries the registry. Are the values for Time Zone ID strings stored in the registry at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zone" dependent on the language of the Windows installation of the machine? The registry key cont...
Do time zone specification in XMLMapper works ?
Hi all, I receive DateTime in XML file like this 2009-12-14 05:07:38Z. So, I thought it was a mistake but after little googling, I find this : http://www.w3schools.com/Schema/schema_dtypes_date.asp Time Zones To specify a time zone, you can either enter a time in UTC time by adding a "Z" behind the time - like this: 09:...
How to get regional timezone on Compact Framework and then convert UTC date to local date?
How to get regional timezone on Compact Framework and then convert UTC date to local date? ...
Java - UnresolvedAddressException due to lack of timezone info?
Hi to everyone, I'm looking for a few days for the solution to an UnresolvedAddressException I can't figure out! It seems it's quite a challenging problem, since I couldn't even find other info on the net! I'm working with OSGi framework on JamVM. I get this exception when using Date.toString o SimpleDateFormat on a Calendar object. I ca...
PHP, Codeigniter: How to Set Date/Time based on users timezone/location globally in a web app?
Hello all, I have just realised if I add a particular record to my MySQL database - it will have a date/time of the server and not the particular user and where they are located which means my search function by date is useless! As they will not be able to search by when they have added it in their timezone rather when it was added in t...
In C#, convert Sql Server 2005 datetime value to another timezone
UPDATE I am dealing with a legacy database where the datetime values have been stored in a specific timezone (not UTC). Assume it is not possible to change how we are storing these values. END UPDATE Say I have a SQL Server 2005 database with a table as follows: [id] (int) not null [create_date] (datetime) not null Suppose my [c...
Searchlogic doesn't convert the time properly for datetime conditions
The author of Searchlogic says that it is delegated to A::R converter, but at least in our case this didn't cover the usual cases. Local time was 'interpreted' as UTC and therefore was moved by one hour (CET). How can I do that properly? I add our current workaround as an answer, hopefully it helps somebody! ...
How to order a TimeZone list in .NET?
I have an ASP.NET web application that requires users to select their appropriate time zone so that it can correctly show local times for events. In creating a simple approach for selecting the time zone, I started by just using the values from TimeZoneInfo.GetSystemTimeZones(), and showing that list. The only problem with this is ...
Converting timezone offset to friendly name in PHP
I'm trying to convert a RFC timestamp to a friendly date using PHP. Here's the example: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:44:01 -0500 I'd like this to print as: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:44:01 EST Using date() + strtotime() doesn't seem to do the trick because it converts it to the server's timezone (in my case PST). Is there a simple way to do this ...
How can SELECT UTC_TIMESTAMP() return -10:00 UTC???
Either I'm being stupid or something's wrong here. I have two SQL Servers, the one is on my local machine (local time +2 GMT) and the other is somewhere else (NOW() seems to return +8 GMT)and I access it through phpMyAdmin. I have a table that has a DATETIME column. I'm -trying- to store the current GMT/UTC time and then display it agai...
Difference between UTC and GMT Standard Time in .NET
In .NET, the following statements return different values: Response.Write( TimeZoneInfo.ConvertTime( DateTime.Parse("2010-07-01 5:30:00.000"), TimeZoneInfo.FindSystemTimeZoneById("Pacific Standard Time"), TimeZoneInfo.FindSystemTimeZoneById("GMT Standard Time")) ); // displays 7/1/2010 1:30:00 PM ..and this... Respons...
How to convert between local and universal time using boost::date_time?
How can I convert between local and UTC time (in particular, from local to UTC) using boost::date_time using a current system timezone? I know about boost::date_time::local_adjustor, but it requires a template argument which is a timezone-dependent offset. Failing platform-independent way to do that, how would I do it specifically on Li...
Problem converting a GMT date to local time using C#?
We have a Windows Mobile application written in C# (compact framework). Regional setting is set to (English) New Zealand. Time zone is set to GMT+12 New Zealand. We store our dates in GMT/UTC format. We have a date 2010-02-18 18:00:00 in UTC This time in New Zealand is 7:00 am. When we call on a datetime object starttime = starttime...