How to see the time difference of the same day for different time zones?

Hello!

Could anybody help me in time difference issue?

I have a vector of dates with time, char type, like this: "29-Jan-2016 09:00:00". I would like to see time difference for each date-time between Frankfurt and New York, accounting for daylight saving changes. For example, for today "21-Jul-2016 09:00:00" the difference is 6 hours, so I would like to see either "+6" or the time in NY corresponding to 09:00 in Frankfurt, which is "21-Jul-2016 03:00:00". How can I do that for all the dates in MatLab, adjusted for summer and winter times?

Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

The easiest way to do this is with a datetime object (in R2014a and later versions).

[Ekaterina Serikova]

Should I specify different time zones and then take the difference?

[Star Strider]

I would probably convert them all to UTC and then do the calculations. I’ve not done anything similar to what you’re doing, so you will have to experiment.

Answer 2

[J. Webster]

also look at tzoffset. Not sure what versions it's in

http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/tzoffset.html