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This is a very simple, (hopefully) question. I am new to working with DateTime conversion in .NET. I have a WCF service which has a DateTime property - call it BookingDate. Someone passes that to my WCF service in the format: <a:BookingDate>2012-03-26T17:03:00-04:00</a:BookingDate> The server that it is sitting on is set to a timezone of UTC (Lisbon, London, Dublin). When I store the corresponding value in the database, it sets the value to be: 2012-03-26 22:03 I assumed, I think incorrectly that the .NET framework (as part of the WCF serialize/deserialize process) would pop this into a .Net

Is it possible to create a java.util.Date object that is guaranteed to be UTC and at a specific time in the past, like an hour ago or a day ago, and is this a good idea? I have reviewed the Stack Overflow question get date as of 4 hours ago and its answers. But I want to avoid having to add more dependencies, like jodaTime , and the accepted answer uses System.currentTimeMillis() which would be the local timezone, would it not? Ole V.V. As discussed vividly in the comments, the recommendation is to use the java.time package. The easy solution: Instant fourHoursAgo = Instant.now().minus

I'm having problems converting a lua date to a timestamp and then obtaining back the original date from it. It does work for non UTC dates, but not with UTC. Currently my example code is: local dt1 = os.date( "*t" ); print( dt1.hour ); local dt2 = os.date( "*t", os.time( dt1 ) ); print( dt2.hour ); print( "-=-=-" ); local dt1 = os.date( "!*t" ); print( dt1.hour ); local dt2 = os.date( "!*t", os.time( dt1 ) ); print( dt2.hour ); local dt2 = os.date( "*t", os.time( dt1 ) ); print( dt2.hour ); Which yields the output: 12 12 -=-=- 10 9 11 So, in the second part, after obtaining the timestamp using

I have one question regarding to time zone I have done the following yet, my activerecord is not still matching with my timezone when I do following query def stock_by_date(date) UserStock.where("date(created_at) = ? and user_id = ? ", date , current_user.id) end I did the following in side my application.rb config.active_record.default_timezone = :utc config.active_record.time_zone_aware_attributes = true config.beginning_of_week = :sunday config.active_record.time_zone_aware_types = [:datetime, :time] I added timezone field to my sign up method, and it shows the current day of timezone

I'm getting dates & times from various sources (e.g. file's date/time from FTP server, email's date/tiem received, etc.) and need to store them all as UTC (so they all have a common reference). How do I do this? What pieces of information do I need in order to properly do the conversion. This is for a PHP web application. So, I can get my server's time zone. I'm not sure what to do next. Here are some sample inputs: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:39:52 +1200 2010-06-25 15:33:00 For the first case the offset is there so it should be trivial, the second example however will be considered as UTC (or any

I have a Date() object that contains a UTC date, which I need converted to the users local timezone. Does anybody know how I could do this? :-) I usually create a new Date object and use the Date.setUTC* functions to copy the date information. I'm pretty sure it is done for you automatically. >>> d = new Date('Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:49:23 UTC'); Sat Jun 11 2011 07:49:23 GMT+1200 (New Zealand Standard Time) >>> d.getHours(); 7 Mike Gledhill This is an old thread, but just in case anyone else stumbles across this issue, here's how I got around this problem. UTC dates from ASP.Net In my example, I