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Asked: 2026-06-03T22:42:32+00:00

I’m using explorer to test this event FQL to Event table : fql?q={‘events’: ‘select

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I’m using explorer to test this event

FQL to Event table : fql?q={‘events’: ‘select eid, name, start_time from event where eid = 359724487410779’} – returns start_time = 1337410800
Converting 1337410800 gives Saturday, May 19th 2012, 07:00:00 (GMT)

Event object in FB api explorer: https://graph.facebook.com/359724487410779 – returns start_time = 2012-05-19T00:00:00

Event object in browser: https://graph.facebook.com/359724487410779 – returns start_time = 2012-05-18T14:00:00

FB page https://www.facebook.com/events/359724487410779 – Friday, May 18, 2012
11:00pm until 4:00am in UTC+02

How can I get the right local time, like on FB Event page (Friday, May 18, 2012
11:00pm) based on Facebook API ?

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  1. Editorial Team

    1. Event table – it contains time of the event (in GMT) if it would be in Pacific zone (see here) – so 1337410800 will give you May 19th 7am in GMT -> which is May 18th 11pm in PST – which is the time of the event if you remove timezone.

    2. Event object in FB api explorer – it returns time converted to YOUR Facebook profile time zone – which gives me 2012-05-18T17:00:00 for example (EST). Again, this converts to May 18th 11pm in CET

    3. Event object in browser – i.e. direct call to FB API – gives you start time in PST time zone (2pm PST -> 11pm in Europe/Amsterdam timezone)

    4. FB page obviously have LOCAL time

    Answering your question – personally I would go with Graph API call and will convert start_time from Pacific into UTC. Then use “timezone: Europe/Amsterdam” to convert UTC time into local time.

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