local time of a market on a chart

[Bartje]

Is there a way to to display the local time of a market on a chart. I happen to live in Europe and follow the US markets. I would like to see the US time on the bottom of my chart. Changing my computer time is not what I'm looking for.

Regards,
Bart

[ACM]

Bart
Not in the application itself however it could be done with an efs that writes the bar time with offset at the bottom of the chart and/or in the Cursor Window.
You may want to send a suggestion to [email protected]
Alex

[Bartje]

Alex, thanks for your reply. I've sent in a request at [email protected].
Bart

[TURLIES]

Hi,
I've adapted a study that Alexis originally posted which will display the time zone at the bottom of the adv chart window.

Paul

[TURLIES]

US EST + 5 Hours

[TURLIES]

- 5 Hours = US EST if your on London GMT

To change the Time Zone simply add/subtract the hours in the study coding (displayed as +500 in coding below):

drawTextRelative(0,0,((getHour()*100)+500)+getMinu te(),Color.blue,null,Text.RELATIVETOBOTTOM,"Arial" ,10,"Time2"+Cntr);


Paul

[TURLIES]

I've made a couple of slight appearance changes.

Paul

[TURLIES]

Hi all,
Alex has created a new Time Marker study with the following enhancements (available via the EDIT STUDIES menu):

1) OFFSET = can add or subtract time to obtain the desired time zone (eg: +5 or -5);

2) CURSOR WINDOW DISPLAY = the time zone is now displayed in the Cursor Window for EACH bar;

3) LINES = you can choose to display or remove the vertical lines.

Thanks,
Paul

[TURLIES]

View of Alex's new study:

[ACM]

Paul informed me that there was a problem in the script ie that if the chart time plus/minus the Offset was greater than 24:00 the time displayed would show as 25:00, 26:00, etc
The attached revision of the efs should now take care of this issue.
Alex

[ACM]

The attached revision adds the option to switch on/off also the Time display at the bottom of the chart (previously was always on).
Alex

[Bartje]

Alex,
Isn't possible to modify the code in such a way that the local time of the market you're following is retrieved automatically? I was thinking something like this:

var time = new Date();
var timeAmsterdam = time.getTimezoneOffset();
var timeNY = time.getTimezoneOffset(x);//x is the unknown parameter for Eastern Timezone US; 
var timeDif = timeAmsterdam + timeNY; 

The only problem is the missing parameter x.
Bart

[ACM]

Bart
I do not know if that type of information is available to efs so I am not able to tell you whether it is possible or not. Someone from eSignal will be in a better position to reply to your question.
Alex

[eSignal_JasonK]

Hello Bart,

The formula below should help you. Please note that the .getTimezoneOffset() method of the date object does not adjust for Day Light Savings time, so the adjustment needs to be done within the formula. See function DayLightSavings(). For those countries that don't use Day Light Savings time remove the nDayLightSavings adjustment on line 29.

NewYorkTime.efs