• carrylex@lemmy.worldOP
    33·
    2 months ago

    So just for additional context:

    This meme was brought to you by the following API response scheme:

    {
  "time": "2007-12-24 18:12",
  "servertimezone": "Europe/Vienna",
  "timezoneoffset": -8
}

    when it could have just been

    {
  "date": "2007-12-24T18:21:00-07:00"
}
    • gjoel@programming.dev
      8·
      2 months ago

      To be fair, returning the actual timezone (as defined by tz.db) is useful if you don’t just want the current time since you’ll be able to take DST into account. Not sure how Vienna is -8 though, it should be +1 (or 2 depending on DST).

      • carrylex@lemmy.worldOP
        3·
        2 months ago

        Just for further clarification, the API works like this:

        • time is the local (client) time (in this case UTC-7)
        • servertimezone is the time zone where the server is located
        • timezoneoffset is the offset of the local time relative to the servertimezone (offset from the servers PoV)

        To get the UTC date you have to do something like this:

        time.minusHours(timezoneoffset).atZone(servertimezone).toUTC()