Time Zone Data

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The Bing Maps Time Zone API returns responses in either XML or JSON. All responses include at least one TimeZone resource. Optionally, either a convertedTime resource or a DstRule resource, or both, will be included in each response.

These resources are described below.

TimeZone Resource

Field Description JSON Fields XML Fields
Standard name of the time zone, e.g. Pacific standard time genericName GenericName
Abbreviation for the time zone, e.g. PST abbreviation Abbreviation
Time zone name per the IANA standard1 ianaTimeZoneId IANATimeZoneID
Time zone name as per the Microsoft Windows standard windowsTimeZoneID WindowsTimeZoneID
Offset of time zone from UTC, in (+/-)hh:mm format utcOffset UTCOffset
ConvertedTime Resource convertedTime ConvertedTime
DstRule Resource2 dstRule DSTRule

1 If either desttz is set to a valid Windows Time Zone ID or standardtimezoneid is WINDOWS, then the IANA Time Zone ID field will not be present in the response.

2 Present in the response only if both includeDstRules is true and Dst Rules are available for the requested IANA or Windows Time Zone ID.

ConvertedTime Resource

Field Description JSON Fields XML Fields
Local time for designated time zone, in UTC format localTime LocalTime
UTC offset with DST, (+/-)hh:mm format utcOffsetWithDst UTCOffsetWithDst
Display name of time zone, e.g. Pacific Daylight Time timeZoneDisplayName TimeZoneDisplayName
Display Time zone abbreviation, e.g. PDT timeZoneDisplayAbbr TimeZoneDisplayAbbr

DstRule Resource

Field Description JSON Fields XML Fields
The month (three-letter abbreviation) when DST starts, e.g. Mar dstStartMonth DSTStartMonth
DST starting date rule3 dstStartDateRule DSTStartDateRule
The local time when DST starts, hh:mm format dstStartTime DSTStartTime
The offset to apply during DST, (+/-)h:mm format4 dstAdjust1 DSTAdjust1
The month (three-letter abbreviation) when DST ends, e.g. Oct dstEndMonth DSTEndMonth
DST ending date rule3 dstEndDateRule DSTEndDateRule
The local time when DST ends, hh:mm format dstEndTime DSTEndTime
The offset to apply outside of DST, (+/-)h:mm format4 dstAdjust2 DSTAdjust2

3 The syntax for DST Rules consists of four types of expressions. The first is an integer denoting a day in a month, e.g. 10. The second is the prefix last- which denotes the last day of the month, e.g. lastSun. Lastly, there are two relational operators: >= and =<. For example Mon>=5 denotes the first Monday of the month on or after the fifth day, while Mon<=5 denotes the first Monday of the month on or before the fifth day. For more details, see the IANA documentation on time zone syntax.

4 The values for the fields dstAdjust1 and dstAdjust2 will never both return valid time offsets. If one field returns a valid time offset in the format h:mm, the other field will always return 0.