Editing Time zone (section)

==== JavaScript ====
Traditionally, there was very little in the way of time zone support for [[JavaScript]]. Essentially the programmer had to extract the UTC offset by instantiating a time object, getting a GMT time from it, and differencing the two. This does not provide a solution for more complex daylight saving variations, such as divergent DST directions between northern and southern hemispheres.

ECMA-402, the standard on Internationalization API for JavaScript, provides ways of formatting Time Zones.<ref>{{Cite web
| title = ECMAScript 2015 Internationalization API Specification
| publisher = ECMA International
| date = June 2015
| access-date = September 4, 2019
| url = https://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-402/2.0/#sec-time-zone-names
| archive-date = October 26, 2019
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191026140400/https://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-402/2.0/#sec-time-zone-names
| url-status = live
}}</ref> However, due to size constraint, some implementations or distributions do not include it.<ref>{{Cite web
| title = Internationalization Support
| work = Node.js v12.10.0 Documentation
| access-date = September 4, 2019
| url = https://nodejs.org/api/intl.html#intl_disable_all_internationalization_features_none
| archive-date = August 28, 2019
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190828234745/https://nodejs.org/api/intl.html#intl_disable_all_internationalization_features_none
| url-status = live
}}</ref>