How to handle date difference between client and server?

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Published on 2013-10-21T15:52:36Z Indexed on 2013/10/21 15:53 UTC
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I have an API which looks like

/summary/yyyy/mm
  • Which returns the summary of their data for the year and month requested.
  • One of the things it returns the number of days left if this is current year and month. For example: days_left: 9 for 2013 and 10 and current date on server is 21 Oct 2013

How I calculate remaining days?
This is implemented in python as

def current_financial_month_details(self):
        time_from, time_to = self \
            .get_start_end_time_current_financial_month()

        today = datetime.today()
        from_time = datetime(year=today.year, month=today.month,
                             day=today.day)
        return {
            'time_from': time_from,
            'time_to': time_to,
            'remaining_days': (time_to - from_time).days
        }

The problem?

  • The server is in east coast and the client(me with browser) is on pacific time zone
  • When its 9PM PST the time changes in east coast, so if I run hit /summary/2013/10 and if it is Oct 21 2013 for me on PST, the date has already changed on EST, so days_left: 8 which is incorrect on client end. right?

How do I handle this situation?

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