Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Michael Davidsaver via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Wed, 16 Nov 2022 21:05:32 -0800

On 11/15/22 11:37, Manoussakis, Adamandios via Tech-talk wrote:

2012-012-27*T18:00:00.000-000Z *or have the offset in the request 2012-012-27*T10:00:00.000-800Z. *But either way it looks like I need to account timezone/dst for the request, unless I am misunderstanding something horribly.

When providing an offset, leave off the trailing "Z".

On a Linux host, run:

$ date -Isec
2022-11-16T20:50:55-08:00

to see an example for your currently configured place
and time.

As others have said, I think you would do better to
delegate this conversion to a timezone database, as
accessed through your API of choice, and send only UTC
times over the wire.

fyi. On Linux, it is easy enough to override timezone on
a per-process basis with the $TZ environment variable.

$ TZ=Brazil/East date -Isec
2022-11-17T01:55:20-03:00

cf. /usr/share/zoneinfo/ and "man tzset"

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System