Twitter - Time Zone of the Tweeet

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MNVR picture MNVR · Dec 14, 2010 · Viewed 9.8k times · Source

What is the time zone used for tweets in Twitter API?

Answer

Liz Rice picture Liz Rice · Apr 27, 2012

The created_at field for a tweet in the Twitter REST API gives the timestamp in UTC.

If a user has configured their timezone with Twitter, the utc_offset field gives you the difference in seconds between their timezone and UTC. So,

"utc_offset":-28800

corresponds to -28800/3600 = -8 hours from UTC.

There are a couple of suggestions that this doesn't get adjusted for daylight savings.

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