I've taken to passing the GMT offset on the server with the DataTable so that the Client can get it's GMT offset, use that with the GMT offset from the server and the data in the DataTable, and then correct as necessary.
Bob On Jan 26, 5:58 pm, ghazel <[email protected]> wrote: > When implementing a data source, how should the client-side time zone > be taken in to account? > > I see that the ability to pass strings to create Date objects was > added to the JSON > syntax:http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/dev/implement... > > but the times on the server are in the server's time zone and the > Javascript constructor for Date objects creates object in the client's > time zone. So, passing "new Date(2010, 01, 26, 00, 00, 00)" from the > server trying to indicate the time in UTC (or whatever the local time > zone of the server is) would create a date object representing "Fri > Feb 26 2010 00:00:00 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)" (or whatever > the local time zone of the client is). > > Suggestions? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Visualization API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-visualization-api?hl=en.
