Question

I am using a JQuery plugin to render a calendar (http://arshaw.com/fullcalendar/). Problem is that the dates are one hour ahead. I have tried looking into the files to find out where this happens.

Can it be something with day light savings? I am pretty clueless. The dates from the database is correct, but once they are converted to a UNIX timestamp they are missing one hour.

I use this to convert my date to timestamp.

private double ConvertToTimestamp(DateTime value)
{
    //create Timespan by subtracting the value provided from
    //the Unix Epoch
    var date = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0);

    TimeSpan span = (value - date.ToLocalTime());

    //return the total seconds (which is a UNIX timestamp)
    return (double)span.TotalSeconds;
}

But i believe its not where the problems lies.

Thank you.

Answer 1

Is it possible that you live in a part of the world that observes Daylight Savings Time? That would explain why your dates are an hour ahead. Try skipping ahead to December and adding a few dates. Are they still an hour ahead?