Showing correct sunrise/sunset times using unix timestamp

Question

I\'m getting a UNIX timestamp from DarkSkyApi for the sunrise & sunset times for the selected location and i want to convert it to a DateTime format and display it to th

Answer 1

Use this function to find timezone of every place you want with its latitude and longitude:

fun timezonecalculator(latitude:Double,longitude:Double):Double {
    val resultTimeZone = TimezoneMapper.latLngToTimezoneString(latitude, longitude)
    var tz= TimeZone.getTimeZone(resultTimeZone).getDisplayName(
        TimeZone.getTimeZone(resultTimeZone).inDaylightTime(Date()), TimeZone.SHORT)
    if ((tz=="GMT")||(tz=="UTC")||(tz=="WET"))
        tz+="+00:00"
    if ((tz=="CST")||(tz=="MDT"))
        tz+="-06:00"
    if (tz=="AST")
        tz+="-04:00"
    if ((tz=="EST")||(tz=="CDT"))
        tz+="-05:00"
    if (tz=="MST")
        tz+="+05:00"
    if ((tz=="CET")||(tz=="BST"))
        tz+="+01:00"
    if (tz=="EET")
        tz+="+02:00"
    if (tz=="CEST")
    {tz+="+02:00"
        tz=tz.drop(1)}
    if (tz=="PDT")
        tz+="-07:00"
    if (tz=="EDT")
        tz+="-04:00"
    if (tz=="EEST")
    {tz+="+03:00"
    tz=tz.drop(1)}
    if (tz=="WEST")
    {tz+="+01:00"
        tz=tz.drop(1)}
    var sign=tz[3]
    tz=tz.drop(4)
    val minute=tz.drop(3)
    val hour=tz.dropLast(3)
    val min=Integer.parseInt(minute)
    val hou=Integer.parseInt(hour)
    var timezone=hou+(min.toDouble()/60)
    if (sign=='-')
        timezone*=-1
    return timezone
}

And TimeZoneMapper class is https://raw.githubusercontent.com/drtimcooper/LatLongToTimezone/master/src/main/java/com/skedgo/converter/TimezoneMapper.java

See here to know how to use this class: https://github.com/drtimcooper/LatLongToTimezone

You invoke it this way: timezonecalculator(latitude, longitude)

Example: timezonecalculator(36.2, 59.6) Output: 4.5

Answer 2

it sounds like the api is returning different time zones depending on what city you request data

So taking that into consideration, when converting the timestamp to a datetime object, you need to do something like this:

import java.time.*

val dt = Instant.ofEpochSecond(/*put time value here*/)
                .atZone(/*put time zone here*/)
                .toLocalDateTime() //this will convert it to your system's date time