[Solved] eventArgs.get_startTime() doesn't give me the correct time

[Jonathan]

When I am trying to get the start time of an appointment insert using 

eventArgs.get_startTime()

I get a time which is 4hrs ahead of my time. How can I change this? My TimeZoneOffset is set to 00:00:00 and the culture is set to UK.

If I alter the TimeZoneOffset this breaks my appointments as they start being displayed at the wrong times.
Thanks
Jon

[Jonathan]

Does nayone know anything about this?

[Yamil]

This is a known issue. I f you try  the sample  'External Edit with a RadWindow" (http://www.telerik.com/DEMOS/ASPNET/Prometheus/Scheduler/Examples/RadWindow/DefaultCS.aspx) and click to create a new appoint, for example at 8:00 am you got in the Edit window 12 :00 m.
I think the problem is with teh javascript function formatDate in the line var hour = padNumber(date.getUTCHours(), 2);

Any fix for this problem ?

[Jonathan]

I wonder when they will have a fix for this then because it's a bit annoying.

Do you have a work around?

[Dimitar Milushev]

Hello Jonathan,

This will be fixed in the upcoming Service Pack 2 that should be released by the end of next week.

Please excuse us for the inconvenience.

Greetings,
Dimitar Milushev
the Telerik team

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[Jonathan]

Excellent, I'll wait till next week.

[Yamil]

I rewrote the formatDate function as below and it is working ok :

function formatDate(date)
{
   var temp = date.toGMTString() ;    // convert date to a GMT string;
   date = new Date(temp);    // convert string to a Date object

   var year = padNumber(date.getUTCFullYear(), 4);
   var month = padNumber(date.getUTCMonth() + 1, 2);
   var day = padNumber(date.getUTCDate(), 2);
   var hour = padNumber(date.getUTCHours()-4, 2);
   var minute = padNumber(date.getUTCMinutes(), 2);
   return year + month + day + hour + minute;
}

       

[Jonathan]

Hi Yammil

Thanks for that, it works exactly how I wanted, although I had to change the hours for the UK.

Thanks a lot
Jon

[T. Tsonev]

Hi,

Sorry for the confusion, but the problems you are experiencing are in fact a result of a fix that we have implemented. Beginning with SP1 you no longer need to call getUTCxxx, instead the value returned from the functions is accurate, regardless of the current time zone of the user. The correct implementation of formatDate now looks like this:

function formatDate(date)
{
    var year = padNumber(date.getFullYear(), 4);
    var month = padNumber(date.getMonth() + 1, 2);
    var day = padNumber(date.getDate(), 2);
    var hour = padNumber(date.getHours(), 2);
    var minute = padNumber(date.getMinutes(), 2);

    return year + month + day + hour + minute;
}

We will take care to fix the online example too.

All the best,
Tsvetomir Tsonev
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[Yamil]

I will change the code
Thanks Tsvetomir