Correctly Parsing Graph API Event Times

1 · Chris Banes · June 24, 2011, midnight
One of things that really really annoys me about the Facebook Graph API is the way that they handle Events times. If you read the docs you’ll see the description: Start Time: A JSON string containing an ISO-8601 formatted date/time or a UNIX timestamp; if it contains a time zone (not recommended), it will be converted to Pacific time before being stored and displayed Nice and cryptic, and an absolute......