[twitter-dev] Re: utc_offset and dst

2009-04-03 Thread joshm
Now that I'm a bit futher into this, is it possible that we could request that we get the actual Olson text string back when we request the time zone? If we don't get that it makes it inaccurate to get a users actual local time...? On Apr 2, 2:28 pm, joshm wrote: > Gotcha, thx.  

[twitter-dev] Re: utc_offset and dst

2009-04-02 Thread joshm
t; Twitter API Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw > > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:09 PM, joshm wrote: > > > Is it true that the status date created timestamp and timezone offset > > will give me the users local time (if they have their timezone > > setup)?  If so what about da

[twitter-dev] utc_offset and dst

2009-04-02 Thread joshm
Is it true that the status date created timestamp and timezone offset will give me the users local time (if they have their timezone setup)? If so what about daylight savings time? I know we get the timezone in text, but is there a good way to map this timezone text to say python's pytz library?