Gotcha, thx. I suppose I'm looking for a way to get the timezone from the utc_offset to take into account DST. Know of any way to do that?
On Apr 2, 1:55 pm, Doug Williams <d...@twitter.com> wrote: > 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 Supporthttp://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? > >
