Datepicker timezone

[theunreal]

How I can change the timezone of the datepicker? When I save the value to my database, I see 30 minutes difference between my current clock to the date. I'm using this format:

format="YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS"

[ghetolay]

Currently you can't, but locales are part of the roadmap.

Now that being said, timezone are a view matter. I wouldn't save time zoned date into a database but rather date at UTC time (string) or date in milliseconds (number).

[theunreal]

Thanks for your reply! But even if I willl use millseconds in this case that will be the wrong number, since there is 30 minutes difference. Glad to hear that timezone is part of the roadmap.

[ghetolay]

I've been thinking about your issue and I don't think DatePicker is responsible of it. I had the new implementation in mind where we returns a momentjs object as date but with the current implementation the date is returned as a string (viewFormat) there is no time involved.

Also why are you using a format with time fields in it, why would you need hours, minutes and seconds to set a date ?

Can you explain a bit more about how your code works ?

[sjmerel]

Here's an example where this would be useful: I'm storing a date of birth in a database as midnight UTC on that date. When I display that in the datepicker, it's showing the day before the actual birthday, because I'm in PST which is 7 hours earlier. It would be great if I could just tell the datepicker to display in UTC.

[speence]

@sjmerel was there ever a solution implemented for this? Or did you come up with a workaround?

[sjmerel]

I worked around by converting the dates to the browser's timezone before passing them to the datepicker.