Convert UTC datetime string to local datetime

Question

I\'ve never had to convert time to and from UTC. Recently had a request to have my app be timezone aware, and I\'ve been running myself in circles. Lots of information on co

Answer 1

I traditionally defer this to the frontend -- send times from the backend as timestamps or some other datetime format in UTC, then let the client figure out the timezone offset and render this data in the proper timezone.

For a webapp, this is pretty easy to do in javascript -- you can figure out the browser's timezone offset pretty easily using builtin methods and then render the data from the backend properly.