There are several. As of 2020-04, there are 14 such time zones in 10 countries: Paraguay, Cuba, Chile, Greenland/Denmark, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Iran, and Azores/Portugal. Before 2019-04, the list included Brazil using the America/Sao_Paulo time zone. $ perl -MDateTime -E’say DateTime->new( year => 2013, month => 10, day => 20, hour => 12, time_zone … Read more
I just found a free zip database that includes time offset and participation in DST. I do like Erik J’s answer, as it would help me choose the actual time zone as opposed to just the offset (because you never can be completely sure on the rules), but I think I might start with this, … Read more
I don’t mean to be rude, but seriously – How many times and how loudly do I have to shout this? Time Zone != Offset I mean – it’s only in the timezone tag header, and the body of the timezone tag wiki: … And it’s not like I haven’t already answered this question, or … Read more
If you are OK with adding Javascript to your project, then you may want to try ChronoMouse.js, which will help get the current time, GMT offset, time zone name, location, capital city, daylight savings laws, or daylight savings status for any US/Canada area code, or country code. For country codes, the info is based off … Read more
Noda Time 1.1 has the zone.tab data, so you can now do the following: /// <summary> /// Returns a list of valid timezones as a dictionary, where the key is /// the timezone id, and the value can be used for display. /// </summary> /// <param name=”countryCode”> /// The two-letter country code to get timezones … Read more
Yes. ‘Z’ stands for Zulu time, which is also GMT and UTC. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time: The UTC time zone is sometimes denoted by the letter Z—a reference to the equivalent nautical time zone (GMT), which has been denoted by a Z since about 1950. The letter also refers to the “zone description” of zero hours, which … Read more
Unix timestamps are integer number of seconds since Jan 1st 1970 UTC. Assuming you mean you have an integer column in your database with this number, then the time zone of your database server is irrelevant. First convert the timestamp to a datetime type: SELECT DATEADD(second, yourTimeStamp, ‘1970-01-01’) This will be the UTC datetime that … Read more
The definition of UNIX timestamp is time zone independent. The UNIX timestamp is the number of seconds (or milliseconds) elapsed since an absolute point in time, midnight of Jan 1 1970 in UTC time. (UTC is Greenwich Mean Time without Daylight Savings time adjustments.) Regardless of your time zone, the UNIX timestamp represents a moment … Read more