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shane
New Contributor II
6 years ago

Can't create a non-UTC Date object to call .getTime() on

I need to pull data from an API that needs a timestamp as a parameter. This API retrieves data from a system (not in my control) that is based in the America/Las_Angeles timezone. I have tried for ...
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tstack
Former Employee
6 years ago

I’m not sure what you’re asking here since getTime(), by definition, returns the epoch timestamp, which is UTC.

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    shane
    New Contributor II
    6 years ago

    I don’t think you read the issue fully. I DON’T want UTC based timestamp and you cannot call getTime() on LocalDateTime or LocalDate which is used to create a non-UTC Date object. I cannot find a way to get the timestamp for a non-UTC Date.

    It doesn’t matter I guess as I altered the called service to accommodate things.

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      tstack
      Former Employee
      6 years ago

      In general, a timestamp is the number of seconds/milliseconds from the epoch, where the epoch is defined as January 1st, 1970 00:00:00 UTC. So, a timestamp is pretty much always going to be based in UTC. Asking for a non-UTC timestamp is highly unusual.