B4J Question DateTime.SetTimeZone and daylight savings time

[kostefar]

Dear All,

I´m in the CET timezone, and during the wintertime, DateTime.SetTimeZone(1) worked for me, but now I have to use DateTime.SetTimeZone(2) instead. Is there another parameter that can be set for daylight savings time to keep the settimezone value consistant?

Thanks

 

[Erel]

You don't need to call DateTime.SetTimeZone at all.

Watch this video tutorial:

 

[kostefar]

Thanks Erel,

I did not describe very well what I wanted to achieve. I am collecting timestamps from an external source, and need to know when they were made. The below timestamp should convert to: monday d. 26. march 2018 kl. 23:50:41

1522101041000

However, it shows here at my end in b4j as 2 hours earlier, which is why I have to do the timezone thing. Maybe the website where I got it from is doing something wrong then?

 

[Erel]

Can you post the date format that you are using?

Maybe the website where I got it from is doing something wrong then?

How can it do something wrong if it only returns a date and time string?

 

[kostefar]

Very strange, dunno why I started using the timezone thing in the first place. I can see that if I don´t set it, I actually get the correct timezone when parsing the timestamp.
I guess I ran into a data provider long time ago with a bug, or I wouldn´t have wanted to use it in the first place.

Thanks for making me see things more clearly, now I can skip the timezone setting