peoj
Determining the current system timezone
How can I determine the current timezone of the local system (e.g. Etc/UTC)?
This approach would work for me, but seems like I must be missing a built-in API of some sort!
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outlog
app logic can/should be in a way that the server timezone is irrelevant… aka always Start with DateTime.utc_now() or similar in the logic and go from there…
anyways, maybe something like
iex(20)> :calendar.time_difference(:calendar.universal_time, :calendar.local_time )
{0, {2, 0, 0}}
(I’m utc+2 currently)
pretty sure elixir doesn’t expose it… since it’s a very bad path to venture down of… time is hard enough as it is…
craig
reading timex’s source on how it looks up local time was really informative, they have a lot of sane fallbacks and os-specific lookup methods
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