Time zones and Localisation

Question

I\'m currently storing all times in UTC, to make things easier for when I start bringing multiple sites and servers online.

The problem comes in when translating

Answer 1

You can, using javascript (which knows the local time), change the user-inputted time to UTC before sending the data to your server. Then, send UTC down in a format such that javascript can turn it from UTC into local time.

For example, a date to UTC to be sent to the server:

(new Date("November 11, 2011 23:13:42")).toUTCString()

And UTC to local time, for rendering:

(new Date("October 17, 1986 15:29:13 UTC")).toLocaleString()