A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Date in JavaScript with Intl.DateTimeFormat
Phil Nash walks us through using Intl.DateTimeFormat to format a Date to a specific timezone and format. const shortcutFormatter = Intl.DateTimeFormat("en-AU", { timeZone: "Australia/Melbourne", timeStyle: "long", dateStyle: "short" }); shortcutFormatter.format(date); // => "22/2/21, 5:05:52 pm AEDT" How to display dates in your user’s time zone with the Intl API → Related: Think you know a …
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Part of a PHP project I’m working contains a list of sites/buildings. For each site/building we monitor some data, for example its energy usage. We decided that we wanted to generate a daily/weekly/monthly reports of the data, by aggregating the datapoints. As our sites/buildings are spread across the globe – and thus timezones – we …
Every day has 24 hours Every day without DST changes is 86400 (60 * 60 * 24) seconds long Every day in UTC is 86400 (60 * 60 * 24) seconds long Week one of a year starts in January every year If I know what time zone someone is in and they just tell …
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