title: how to handle DST and timezones in JavaScript
body: <p>What is the best approach for dealing with DST values when your web service accepts requests from different timezones than that of your server? </p>
  
  <p>My webservice accepts date strings using the ISO8601 standard (2012-02-21T05:00:00.000-05:00)</p>
  
  <p>I want to account for DST but don't want the overhead of maintaining or connecting to a database to get the DST for each request which comes in from a different timezone to my server.</p>
  
  <p>One approach im considering is using the servers default DST settings and then for each request that comes in convert it to the same timezone as my server is in. Then when the processing is done , convert the string back to the timezone of the client and return. The conversion of the response data could be done on the server or the client.</p>
  
  <p>Any suggestions? </p>