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Android Android Lists and Adapters (2015) Lists with RecyclerViews Binding Data in the ViewHolder

Posted by shakir kasmani
shakir kasmani
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no timezone needed here?

In our Day Class we also used timezone,

what is use of timezone?

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Rex Wang
Rex Wang
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Rex Wang
Rex Wang
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Time zone is used to retrieve the correct time. The time we get from the forecast api has the following description:

The UNIX time (that is, seconds since midnight GMT on 1 Jan 1970) at which this data point occurs

Since this is GMT time, we want to convert the time received to the one that matches the region with longitude/latitude we supplied to the API call. If you did the extra challenge of the first part of this course, then the time you will see in the app should match the current time on your machine

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If that is true, then why (using the exact same API response data) do we apply a time zone when getting the formatted of a Day object, but not of an Hour object? It seems inconsistent to me.