Bing Map Time zone API not working as expected.

Question

When we call the https://dev.virtualearth.net/REST/V1/TimeZone/?targettimezoneid=America/los_angeles&key=Apikey
Instead of getting the a response body with utcOffset and dstRule i get a response status code as 200 with blank body.
Can you please tell me know the reason for this.

Answer 1

I don't see targettimezoneid documented anywhere. Did you mean to use query? The following works https://dev.virtualearth.net/REST/V1/TimeZone/?query=America/los_angeles&key=[Your Bing Maps Key]

Answer 2

If we refer the below blog it does have a targettimezoneid that returns complete information about a time zone.
https://blogs.bing.com/maps/2018-08/bing-maps-time-zone-api-working-with-time-zones

Answer 3

We have an use case of where we would need to know the day light saving time along with the UTC off set.
So do we have any API that can give this information. As mentioned earlier we had an API in the blog which was helpful for us.

Answer 4

Please review: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/bingmaps/rest-services/timezone/find-time-zone and try the call Ricky suggested.

The sample result shows UTC Standard and Daylight:

"__type": "RESTTimeZone:http://schemas.microsoft.com/search/local/ws/rest/v1",  
                   "timeZoneAtLocation": [  
                       {  
                           "placeName": "Vancouver, BC",  
                           "timeZone": [  
                               {  
                                   "genericName": "Pacific Standard Time",  
                                   "abbreviation": "PST",  
                                   "ianaTimeZoneId": "America/Vancouver",  
                                   "windowsTimeZoneId": "Pacific Standard Time",  
                                   "utcOffset": "-8:00",  
                                   "convertedTime": {  
                                       "localTime": "2018-08-06T12:54:46",  
                                       "utcOffsetWithDst": "-7:00",  
                                       "timeZoneDisplayName": "Pacific Daylight Time",  
                                       "timeZoneDisplayAbbr": "PDT"  
                                   }  
                               }  
                           ]  
                       }  
                   ]  

Answer 5

Take a look at the next API in the docs..https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/bingmaps/rest-services/timezone/convert-local-time-zone