I'd rather store the dates in the database in local time with the offset 
stored (ie take out the [:19]).

On Sunday, March 17, 2013 7:31:24 PM UTC-7, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
>
> I was looking at code to detect the user timezone and store dates 
> consistently in UTC format.
> I made some changes in trunk to handle this. I could use some help testing.
>
> 1) In the header of your layout.html add:
>
>  {{if not session.timezone:}}
>   <script>
>     
> jQuery(function(){jQuery.post('{{=URL('default','set_timezone')}}',{timezone:(new
>  
> Date()).getTimezoneOffset()});});
>   </script>
> {{pass}}
>
> 2) in the default controller:
>
> def set_timezone():
>     session.timezone = int(request.vars.timezone)/60
>
> 3) Use the new timezone attribute of validators in trunk:
>
>    Field('birthday','datetime',requires = 
> IS_DATETIME(timezone=session.timezone)
>
> Does it work for you? Suggestions for improvement?
>
> Massimo
>

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