Eva's new timezone feature

From now on you have a way of specifying the end user's timezone with respect to the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

The timezone is very helpful in understanding expressions such as “hotel tonight”.

The value is a string representing the offset from UTC in the following format “+/-HH:MM”.

HH represents the hour offset in the range -12 to 14

MM represents the minutes offset

    

Examples:

    “time_zone=+08:00” means the UTC+8 timezone.

    “time_zone=-05:30” means the UTC-5:30 timezone

The timezone input can affect the resulting Eva reply. Here is an example:

With Timezone

http://freeapi.evature.com/v1.0?site_code=<your_site_code>&api_key=<your_api_key>&input_text=hotel%20tonight&time_zone=+14:00

1.  {
2.         "Arrival": {
3.           "Date": "2013-05-02"
4.         },
5.         "Index": 10,
6.         "Actions": [
7.           "Get Accommodation"
8.         ]
9.       }

Without Timezone

http://freeapi.evature.com/v1.0?site_code=<your_site_code>&api_key=<your_api_key>&input_text=hotel%20tonight

1.  {
2.         "Arrival": {
3.           "Date": "2013-05-01"
4.         },
5.         "Index": 10,
6.         "Actions": [
7.           "Get Accommodation"
8.         ]
9.       }

For more details on how to use this feature please read http://www.evature.com/docs/request.html