Josh, Timestamps are all based on UTC [1]. If you want to adjust the data in your client to be representative of the user's registered timezone, you should use the utc_offset [2] to transformation the timestamp accordingly.
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time 2. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST-API-Documentation#utcoffset Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:09 PM, joshm <joshmat...@gmail.com> 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 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? >
