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saeed.barghi
saeed.barghi

Reputation: 29

How to calculate time based on location in react native

How can I calculate time based on a different location's time in my react native app? For example, user is in New York and I want to the app to convert the time user inserts and convert it based on another location's time (which is given in lat/long) and then send it to server to store in DB. Thanks for your time in advance.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1449

Answers (2)

saeed.barghi
saeed.barghi

Reputation: 29

What I needed to do was to be able to change the date/time based on a location entered by user. I initially thought of using lat/long, but then I realized Google Places returns offsetFromUTC and I used date.getTimezoneOffset() to calculate the offset of user's device, and then calculated the time that should actually go into DB.

Upvotes: 0

manosim
manosim

Reputation: 3690

Since by default Date.now() will give you the time based on the phone's timezone, I would suggest using momentjs which has a feature to get the UTC time (more on the docs).

The default use would be:

const now = moment();

And in order to avoid timezones and get the UTC time:

const now = moment.utc();

Upvotes: 1

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