week0011-timezones.md

Week 0011 "Timecube^H^H^H^Hzones"

2015-08-10

Timezones and daylight saving time.

This week let's each take a look at timezone handling in our language of choice, then explain what we've found. For extra fun, we can even try to show off daylight saving time.

Javascript:

• new Date().getTimezoneOffset()
• http://momentjs.com/timezone/

PHP:

• http://php.net/manual/en/class.datetimezone.php

Java:

• http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/TimeZone.html
• https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/time/package-summary.html

C#:

• https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.timezone(v=vs.110).aspx

Python:

• https://docs.python.org/2/library/time.html

Ruby:

• http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/TimeZone.html
• http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.1.1/Time.html

Bash:

• http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/timedate.html

Powershell:

• http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2015/01/07/use-powershell-desired-state-configuration-to-set-time-zone.aspx