[twitter-dev] Re: Daylight savings
I'll try to be a bit specific, I need to know if a user is currently in daylight savings time. For instance my time zone is listed as London (this is where I live) GMT +0 however the UK is currently in British Summer Time (BST) which is GMT +1. The api will report that I'm in GMT +0 when I'm not. I ask this but I think I know the anwser, does the API have any knowledge of a user's actual time zone (inc DST) without the user having to change their TZ whenever their clock changes? On Aug 3, 3:18 am, JDG ghil...@gmail.com wrote: What do you mean? The time of a tweet? If so, you have the created_at parameter in the status object which is the UTC time of the tweet, and the user object within the status object lists the user's utc_offset. Using that, you're able to get the exact time of the tweet, relative of course to the user's honesty in setting their time zone. On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 17:43, Matt mattroberts...@gmail.com wrote: Is it possible to get a user's actual time including daylight savings? Matt -- Internets. Serious business.
[twitter-dev] Re: Daylight savings
I think that you should rely on your programming language to do that. I know that in Java, if I give it a java.util.Calendar object, it can tell if I'm in DST based on the TimeZone and the date represented by the Calendar object. On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 15:40, Matt mattroberts...@gmail.com wrote: I'll try to be a bit specific, I need to know if a user is currently in daylight savings time. For instance my time zone is listed as London (this is where I live) GMT +0 however the UK is currently in British Summer Time (BST) which is GMT +1. The api will report that I'm in GMT +0 when I'm not. I ask this but I think I know the anwser, does the API have any knowledge of a user's actual time zone (inc DST) without the user having to change their TZ whenever their clock changes? On Aug 3, 3:18 am, JDG ghil...@gmail.com wrote: What do you mean? The time of a tweet? If so, you have the created_at parameter in the status object which is the UTC time of the tweet, and the user object within the status object lists the user's utc_offset. Using that, you're able to get the exact time of the tweet, relative of course to the user's honesty in setting their time zone. On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 17:43, Matt mattroberts...@gmail.com wrote: Is it possible to get a user's actual time including daylight savings? Matt -- Internets. Serious business. -- Internets. Serious business.
[twitter-dev] Re: Daylight savings
Hi Matt, Right now neither the API nor the Twitter site settings know anything about DST for any timezone. The best you can do for now is, as JDG suggest, figure this out programmatically on your end. Thanks, -Chad Twitter Platform Support On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Mattmattroberts...@gmail.com wrote: I'll try to be a bit specific, I need to know if a user is currently in daylight savings time. For instance my time zone is listed as London (this is where I live) GMT +0 however the UK is currently in British Summer Time (BST) which is GMT +1. The api will report that I'm in GMT +0 when I'm not. I ask this but I think I know the anwser, does the API have any knowledge of a user's actual time zone (inc DST) without the user having to change their TZ whenever their clock changes? On Aug 3, 3:18 am, JDG ghil...@gmail.com wrote: What do you mean? The time of a tweet? If so, you have the created_at parameter in the status object which is the UTC time of the tweet, and the user object within the status object lists the user's utc_offset. Using that, you're able to get the exact time of the tweet, relative of course to the user's honesty in setting their time zone. On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 17:43, Matt mattroberts...@gmail.com wrote: Is it possible to get a user's actual time including daylight savings? Matt -- Internets. Serious business.
[twitter-dev] Re: Daylight savings
What do you mean? The time of a tweet? If so, you have the created_at parameter in the status object which is the UTC time of the tweet, and the user object within the status object lists the user's utc_offset. Using that, you're able to get the exact time of the tweet, relative of course to the user's honesty in setting their time zone. On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 17:43, Matt mattroberts...@gmail.com wrote: Is it possible to get a user's actual time including daylight savings? Matt -- Internets. Serious business.
