Times returned by API-NG

[betdynamics]

Are the times returned by the API-NG local times, or UTC times?

For example, if you call listMarketCatalogue for a particular market, would the returned marketStartTime be a UTC time?

Basically I am trying to determine if the marketStartTime is always returned with the same value regardless of the locale of the person who is making the call.

[Zhong]

It's UTC time from the server.

[AlgoTrader]

All times are returned in ISO string format "2014-03-22T16:00:00.000Z". Timezone is Z, which stands for Zero (GMT).

JSON came from JavaScript, in JavaScript you can use get Date object from ISO string immediatly

var date = new Date('2014-03-22T16:00:00.000Z')

console.log(date)
Sat Mar 22 2014 20:00:00 GMT+0400 (Moscow time (winter))

Most of modern languages can also work with ISO date stings natively

[gavvythegunner]

utc or bst?

when i fetch event data I am getting event times in utc, however the event time returned contains the "BST" letters indicating that
it is a "bst" time. So my question is , is this a bug? and how do I adjust the time i.e. if i were to parse the time and it contained the characters "UTC" it would be an obvious adjustment but now it is not!

[Guest]

UTC as said above.

The great thing about using C# or VB NET is that the language supports time conversion, ie when I get the result from betfair I simply use the .ToLocalTime function shown below

marketCatalogues(i).MarketStartTime.ToLocalTime