Summer Time VS Winter Time in the same timezone

[hector_borras]

Hi all,

We’re starting to find an issue that we don’t really know how to solve at this time.

Since in our country we changed from Winter Time to Summer Time (+01:00 to +02:00)

Is any dynamic / programatic with your ADS API ( maybe with account information or something related ) to detect this date in order to parse the offset correctly?

Thanks!!

[majoritasdev]

Hi @hector_borras! You can get the account’s timezone, and using the timezone you can know what the offset currently is.

[hector_borras]

Hi @majoritasdev thanks for your help. But I still don’t know how to achieve this, I mean:

If I have this account:

{
            "approval_status": "ACCEPTED",
            "created_at": "2015-08-19T12:21:32Z",
            "deleted": false,
            "id": "18ce541irm3",
            "name": "NAME",
            "salt": "SALT",
            "timezone": "Europe/Madrid",
            "timezone_switch_at": "2015-09-26T22:00:00Z",
            "updated_at": "2016-04-15T04:44:21Z"
        }

I can extract that the current offset is +02:00 due to “timezone_switch_at” shows me 22:00:00

But the thing is, How can I know the offset before the Winter vs Summer time change.

Last 27th of March spain changed the offset from +01:00(Winter Time) to +02:00 (Sumer Time) If I want to retrieve statistics from that lapse of time, I don’t know how to detect the previous offset

Thanks!

[majoritasdev]

Well, you can use the PHP functions date_offset_get and date_create (or their equivalent in your programming language). For example, to find out the UTC offset, in hours, for a given time from a given timezone, I do:

$timeUtcOffsetHours = date_offset_get(date_create($dateTimeInGivenTimezone . ' ' . $theTimezone)) / 3600;

Please also see v1 stats end_time cannot be in the future

[hector_borras]

WOW!!!

Thanks a lot!

I’ll try this. I didn’t know that function exists, I use PHP too.

Thank you so much!

[majoritasdev]

you’re welcome!