I am stuck with Date assertion in different timezones. May someone give me a hint? <https://gist.git...

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[Georgi Naumov]

I am stuck with Date assertion in different timezones. May someone give me a hint? https://gist.github.com/gonaumov/cc60cc8fafc74da937f8291a6efeda70

[Georgi Naumov]

I tried to calculate the offset and managed to do it but I didn't find working solutions to detect daylight saving time switching.

[kqr]

hi, honestly I am not sure what you are trying to do, but I would try to convert dates to timestamps and compare them. not sure what is your source of data, because 2019-08-23 15:50:00 is not exact timestamp without timezone, so if you change timezone you change timestamp

[Georgi Naumov]

This was my trying to fix it. Sorry for gists but I don't have Slack on the PC: https://gist.github.com/gonaumov/6c9816cc251c2fec73234b585e2986b8 Probably the question is a but stupid but how to add a time zone to the string in way parser to understand it?

[kqr]

where does never.created come from? whats in it? that datetime in string should be in which time zone? how did you created formatter? did you set timezone to formatter?

[kqr]

"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ" 	2001-07-04T12:08:56.235-0700
"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSXXX" 	2001-07-04T12:08:56.235-07:00

[corneil]

Or use "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ" as the formatter and append Z to the time that has no timezone then the result will be a UTC time.

[myanmarking]

just convert both dates to the same timezone and compare them?

[myanmarking]

idk what is the problem

[Georgi Naumov]

Would you give me an example? :)

[myanmarking]

give me a test that will fail and should pass. maybe that's better to understand the point