fix: Fix UTC<->Timezone conversion issue for DST start and end timestamp #2260
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UTC conversion issue:
Example date: 2018-03-25 01:00:00 UTC(or 2018-03-25 03:00:00+02:00)
Conversion to UTC
Original Epoch: 1 AM UTC (1521939600000) or 3 AM (Paris Time)
Calculated Offset: 2 hours ( 1 hr Raw Offset + 1 hr DST)
Offset Epoch: 11 PM UTC (1521932400000)
UTC to actual time
Original Epoch: 11 PM UTC (1521932400000 )
Calculated Offset: 1 hr ( 1hr Raw offset)
Timezone converted Epoch: 12 AM UTC(1521936000000)
We are losing 1hr because of DST. In order to solve this issue, we are adding timezone raw offset and DST savings so that it will handle the edge case when timestamp is start of DST.
Offset is purely computed on two fields. Raw offset and if time is within DST, then DST offset.