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Implementing RFC 3339 shouldn't really be that hard... (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Further reading: RFC 3339 / ISO 8601

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago (9 children)

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"
}

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (7 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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()

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