I'm using MVC4 to create ics files and sent them by mail. But i don't know how to set my DTSTART and DTEND timezone.
I know the problem is with the Z at the end
a.WriteLine("DTSTART:20150814T000000Z")
a.WriteLine("DTEND:20150814T110000Z")
I need to set it to GMT -6, Central America time or more especific Managua Nicaragua timezone.
Help please.
A line like this should do it:
DTSTART;TZID=America/Managua:20150814T000000
You officially also need to include a VTIMEZONE object with all the relevant timezone transition information for your timezone, but almost every client can work without that data
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I save my date as a local date, but when I read it back, it treats it as if it was a UTC date so it slips by several hours.
The dates are passed in as strings in the form '2020-03-05 09:05:23' as query parameters but when they are retrieved they might look like '2020-03-04 10:05:23' because I am 13 hours ahead of Greenwich.
For MariaDB (or MySQL):
Use DATETIME as a picture of the clock on the wall.
Use TIMESTAMP to adjust to the system's timezone.
Set the system's timezone according to where it lives in the world.
I'm developing a Clio integration with access to the calendar, but there's been an issue with dates. While the documentation says they expect an ISO-8601 timestamp date, it seems like there's something adding offset to the timezone value in dates being sent to the system.
For example, if I send a date 2018-05-17T23:59:59.999999-04:00 on both start_at and end_at properties when creating a calendar entry for an all day event, the value returned when fetching this entry through the API is 2018-05-17T17:00:00-07:00, which is clearly wrong. Am I missing something here?
The expected result should be something like either 2018-05-17T23:59:59-04:00 or 2018-05-18T03:59:59Z if milliseconds are ignored.
All dates are based on UTC timezone. Could it be that your site/server/script is set to a local timezone and so the dates are off for part of the day?
Try setting your scripting environment to UTC time before making any date/time-based queries.
I have two fields,
CreatedDate
UpdatedDate
It takes from the system date and time.. My sql server is located at UK. So when i see in site it is showing wrong time.. how to change this in mvc?
My details page, i am showing like following,
<strong>Date Posted:</strong>
<%:Model.CreatedDate%>
Please give me the ideas?
I would store your dates using UTC and then use that as a baseline for converting to the appropriate timezone for your region. This makes it flexible since you have a constant reference point.
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 in Australia and the current timezone is +11 GMT/UTC, but the default timezone being displayed when I format the date is -11 GMT.
The offset from the server is +11 hours (as it should be), but when I try and format the date with this offset, I get the wrong date, and so I need to use the negative offset instead.
Why is the default timezone wrong?
When you are getting a date (particularly if you're parsing a date) make sure you specify the timezone. GWT's DateTimeFormat.parse only supports "RFC format" timezones, something like -0800 for Pacific time. If your server is sending dates in strings to the client, make sure it includes the timezone in this format.
Then when you convert the date to a string to present it to the user, make sure you use the overload of DateTimeFormat.format that specifies a TimeZone and pass the timezone that you want the date to be presented in (the timezone of the server, in your case.)
By default dates are presented in the timezone that the user's system is set to. Setting the default timezone in GWT (so you can ignore timezones and do everything in the server's timezone) is an open issue (3489) at the time I write this.
I just want to clarify if I am understanding how dates & time zones work.
Basically, I have a date string #"2008-07-06 12:08:49" that I want to convert to an NSDate. I want this date and time to be in whatever the current user's time zone is set in. So if they are in GMT or HST, it's still 12:08:49.
If I have date in unix form 1215382129 (UTC) and my time zone is set to London (GMT), the outputted date from NSLog() is:
2008-07-06 12:08:49 +0100
If I then change my time zone to Hawaii (HST) and output the same date, I get:
2008-07-06 12:08:49 -1000
This seems to work fine, but I was under the impression to get the time in Hawaiian, I'd have to physically add the time difference (-10hrs) to the unix time stamp. Is this not required then?
Does that mean, whatever date and time a unix time is pointing to, it always points to the same date and time in whatever time zone a user is in?
Hope this makes sense!
Edit
I've just realised (thanks to Kevin Conner!) that in fact NSDateFormatter is creating different unix timestamps for that date string depending on the current timezone! So I was totally wrong!! :-)
Disclaimer, I'm mostly a Java guy. But Cocoa seems to work like the Java library in this regard: Dates are zoneless timestamps. Time zones are in the domain of formatting dates for display. In other words, the internal format doesn't consider time zones, it's all in UTC. Time zones are relatively a convenience for humans, so they are in the display/parsing side.
I noticed there is a setTimeZone: method on NSDateFormatter. Try calling that on your formatter before performing the format.