timeZone

The timeZone entity represents a time zone definition from the server's time zone tables. A timeZone is an improper entity which can be uniquely identified by the abbreviation attribute. The time zones known to the server can be retrieved via a call to searchForObjects specifying an entity type of 'TimeZones".

The criteria, detail, and flag parameters of searchForObjects are ignored when requesting the server's time zones. All known time zones are returned regardless of criteria or flags.

NOTE: To retrieve the server's current time and its perception of the client's time see the documentation of the time entity.

Examples

  server.zogi.searchForObjects('TimeZones', '', 0)

 {'abbreviation': 'NZDT',
  'description': 'NZ',
  'entityName': 'timeZone',
  'isCurrentlyDST': True,
  'offsetFromGMT': 46800,
  'serverDateTime': <DateTime '20071110T03:49:55' at b7b5f82c>}

 {'abbreviation': 'GMT-0800',
  'description': 'GMT-8',
  'entityName': 'timeZone',
  'isCurrentlyDST': False,
  'offsetFromGMT': -28800,
  'serverDateTime': <DateTime '20071110T03:49:55' at b7b5f8ac>}

 {'abbreviation': 'GMT+0300',
  'description': 'GMT+3',
  'entityName': 'timeZone',
  'isCurrentlyDST': False,
  'offsetFromGMT': 10800,
  'serverDateTime': <DateTime '20071110T03:49:55' at b7b5f92c>}

 {'abbreviation': 'PST',
  'description': 'US/Pacific',
  'entityName': 'timeZone',
  'isCurrentlyDST': False,
  'offsetFromGMT': -28800,
  'serverDateTime': <DateTime '20071110T03:49:55' at b7b5f98c>}

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