Add timezone parameter

[sameerkumar18]

The timezone of the source for the info on the server side is set to "America/New_York, GMT-0400".
It would be great if we could have one parameter for the timezone as there are many users of this API from various parts of the globe.
Example -
POST: https://aztro.herokuapp.com?sign= <sign> &day= <day> &tz= <GMT_Timezone>

We can consider the standard timezone as GMT and enable this conversion just for "day=today"

[sanchezg]

So, let me see if I understand this ... you want to make a POST using your local timezone, and the server must convert it to GMT-4 and return you the right results...

Sounds a good enhancement, can I take this?

[sameerkumar18]

Yes sure go ahead!
Basically, we need to match the timezone of the server with the one given through the parameters.
And please make the timezone parameter optional so that the current users of the API are not affected :)

[sameerkumar18]

@sanchezg Are you doing this? Any update?

[sanchezg]

@sameerkumar18 sorry for the delay! I will be working today on this issue if it is ok, because I was very busy.
Thanks and sorry.

[sameerkumar18]

@sanchezg No problem! Do whenever you're free :)

[sanchezg]

@sameerkumar18 one question: the only possible values for day attribute are "today", "tomorrow" and "yesterday" ? Is that right?

[sameerkumar18]

Awesome work @sanchezg
But I think this may need a bit more work. When a timezone requested(other than America/New_York) has the day param as 'tomorrow' or 'yesterday', the API still returns the response for 'today'.

For example - http://aztro.herokuapp.com/?sign=aries&day=tomorrow&tz=America/Anchorage
A POST request to this returns response for today i.e. 15th Oct in Anchorage instead of 16th Oct

Hope someone can fix this too :)

[sameerkumar18]

Closing due to inactivity. Please reopen if necessary :)

[inthernar]

Was TimeZone support added?
I tried adding the $tz parameter but it didn't work.
I looked in the white pages, they were not updated to include the TZ parameter.

I am currently trying to figure out a way to calculate the differential between the server time and device local time, then adjusting &day to be either today, tomorrow, yesterday...

Would be a lot nicer if this was done on the server lol. Thank you in advance :)