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PayPal NVP: what values can appear in the TimeZone field?

My app uses the TransactionSearch and GetTransactionDetails functions of PayPal's NVP API. The data that comes back from PayPal includes Date, Time, and TimeZone. I need to adapt my app to determine the GMT (British) date when each transaction took place.

In the NVP documentation I can find currency codes and country codes, but not time zone codes; and I am aware that they are not well standardised (e.g. "CST" may refer to 4 different zones: see looking up time zone standard name by abbreviation in .Net ).

So: what is the full list of possible values that can appear in PayPal's TimeZone field, and their meanings?

Solution

  • Response is always in GMT (UTC)

    1. https://developer.paypal.com/docs/nvp-soap-api/transaction-search-nvp/
    2. https://developer.paypal.com/docs/nvp-soap-api/get-transaction-details-nvp/