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I invoke method smugmug.albums.get and get a time in a very confusing timezone in response in LastUpdated field. Neither Greenwich (that is used for LastUpdated field in request), nor my local. For a moment of writing this issue, it is Greenwich minus 8 hours.

How can I deal with this time properly ?

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Lol, nobody seems to know! Maybe the easier option would be to upload something as you make a note of the time and calculate it yourself, looking up the difference in a table should be pretty straightforward – HaavardH Jun 12 '12 at 9:40

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From my testing, it is the Pacific Timezone. Where it gets confusing is that, depending on the time of year it is either Pacific Standard Time (GMT-8hrs) or Pacific Daylight Time (GMT -7hrs). Since currently (June) daylight time is in effect, LastUpdated would be GMT-7hrs. In December it would be GMT-8hrs. I would prefer if the ISO-8601 format was used, which includes the GMT offset. That way there is no guessing as to what GMT offset the time is being presented in. For example, in ISO-8601 "2012-06-28T08:30:10-08:00" corresponds to June 28 2012, 8:30:10am GMT-8hrs.

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According to a comment on an older API revision, the timezone used in LastUpdated is PDT (Pacific Time), which is the timezone SmugMug is located in. That seems to match with the results you received.

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