I am currently using an ASP Calendar on my web page. I have realized that my web site is sitting on a server in another time zone and the day of the week is ahead by several hours which can make the selected day be off by a day. Is there a way to control what date the calendar control uses as "today" so I can subtract the necessary hours with date manipulation? Looking at the properties of the control I don't see anything for time zone.
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ASP:Calendar but ISP server is in another time zone
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I was able to resolve this with the following added to my Page_Load
Hope this helps someone else that may run into the same problem. I isolated the date & time that the server was in with a simple page with a label that I set to "Now". That allowed me to compare to my local time to see the difference in hours.
I then just added the difference in hours (negative for me) and set the calandar "TodaysDate" and that resolved the time difference.
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Calendar1.TodaysDate = DateAdd("h",-7,Now)Hope this helps someone else that may run into the same problem. I isolated the date & time that the server was in with a simple page with a label that I set to "Now". That allowed me to compare to my local time to see the difference in hours.
I then just added the difference in hours (negative for me) and set the calandar "TodaysDate" and that resolved the time difference.
I hope you find this post helpful.
Regards,
Mark
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this method only works if the ISP doesn't change the location of the server or you don't switch ISPs. I would recommend researching the System.TimeZone class or Globalization for asp.net.
They may provide a way to set the correct date/time without hardcoding to the server.
Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.
They may provide a way to set the correct date/time without hardcoding to the server.
Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.
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An excellent suggestion Jason, thank you. I found a good example of using it here:
I will add this to my to do list as I agree with you, it is a better (more universal) soloution.
Looks like I will want to convert the local time to UTC first, then do my DateAdd to that date/time. The following shows converting to UTC.
Lucky for me Arizona does not do daylight savings time so I don't need to be concerned with that.
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Regards,
Mark
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I will add this to my to do list as I agree with you, it is a better (more universal) soloution.
Looks like I will want to convert the local time to UTC first, then do my DateAdd to that date/time. The following shows converting to UTC.
Lucky for me Arizona does not do daylight savings time so I don't need to be concerned with that.
I hope you find this post helpful.
Regards,
Mark
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So here is what I came up with:
As it turns out my ISP is using UTC time for the servers so I really don't need to change what I was doing.
I hope you find this post helpful.
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Mark
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Code:
<%@ Import Namespace="System" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.Globalization" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="Microsoft.VisualBasic" %>
<%@ OutputCache Duration="3600" VaryByParam="none" %>
<script language="VB" runat=server>
Sub Page_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs)
' Get the local time zone and the current local time and year.
Dim localZone As TimeZone = TimeZone.CurrentTimeZone
Dim currentDate As DateTime = DateTime.Now
' Get the current Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)
Dim currentUTC As DateTime = _
localZone.ToUniversalTime( currentDate )
label1.text = "Server Date:" & currentDate
label2.text = "UTC:" & currentUTC
label3.text = "AZ Time:" & DateAdd("h",-7,currentUTC)
End Sub
</script>
<html dir="ltr" xmlns="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">[/URL]
<head runat="server">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled 1</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<asp:Label runat="server" id="Label1"></asp:Label><br />
<asp:Label runat="server" id="Label2"></asp:Label><br />
<asp:Label runat="server" id="Label3"></asp:Label><br />
<div style="font-family: Arial, 'Microsoft Sans Serif';font-size: 10pt;">
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>As it turns out my ISP is using UTC time for the servers so I really don't need to change what I was doing.
I hope you find this post helpful.
Regards,
Mark
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Hi mate
Not sure if you got it sorted out yet, but I had this same problem. Easiest way to fix it is to add the following to your web.config file
Obviously replace the "en-GB" with your local culture and replace uiCulture with your local culture
Not sure if you got it sorted out yet, but I had this same problem. Easiest way to fix it is to add the following to your web.config file
Code:
<configuration>
<system.web>
<globalization
fileEncoding="utf-8"
requestEncoding="utf-8"
culture="en-GB"
uiCulture="en-GB"
/>
</system.web>
</configuration>Obviously replace the "en-GB" with your local culture and replace uiCulture with your local culture
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thanks ozroo. I did solve it but this is a nice solution as well.
I hope you find this post helpful.
Regards,
Mark
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I hope you find this post helpful.
Regards,
Mark
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