The server time zone value ‘CEST’ is unrecognized

@aiman’s answer is not correct since in your case the effective server timezone is not UTC. You’ll find on the net some solutions including additional parameters on the jdbc connection string, but there are cases where you cannot change this string. Here’s how I fixed it: First import the system timezones in mysql: $ mysql_tzinfo_to_sql … Read more

How to deal with the timezone issue when storing dates in utc using mongod?

Aside from the SERVER-6310 mentioned by Matt Johnson, one other workaround is to use the $project operator to add or subtract from the UTC time zone to “shift the time” into the correct local zone. Turns out you can add or subtract time in milliseconds. For example, assuming I have a Date field called orderTime. … Read more

Can You Determine Timezone from Request Variables?

This is more complicated but I’ve had to resort to this scenario before because machine and user profile settings sometimes don’t match your visitor’s preferences. For example, a UK visitor accessing your site temporarily from an Australian server. Use a geolocation service (e.g MaxMind.com) as suggested by @balabaster, to get the zone matching their IP … Read more

Chrome timeZone option to Date.toLocaleString()

update There is pretty extensive write-up about the API here Is this part of a new standard? Perhaps buried somewhere in ECMAScript 6? Or is it just something custom to Chrome? Yes, these are part of the ECMAScript Internationalization API. It is implemented separate from ECMAScript, but the requirement of implementing ECMAScript Internationalization API is … Read more

Java Time Zone is messed up

It’s a “quirk” in the way the JVM looks up the zoneinfo file. See Bug ID 6456628. The easiest workaround is to make /etc/localtime a symlink to the correct zoneinfo file. For Pacific time, the following commands should work: # sudo cp /etc/localtime /etc/localtime.dist # sudo ln -fs /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles /etc/localtime I haven’t had any problems … Read more

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