Selenium : Get Date and Time of a specific timezone

Have we come across such a situation where we need to fetch Server date and time which is located in US/Canada/Russia/French etc. and do some activities with that in Selenium.

If yes, you are just in the right place as we are going to discuss something similar which will help us fetch date and time particular to a specific timezone. We will use 2 built-in java classes in order to satisfy our need :-

1. Date - It represents a specific instant in time, with millisecond precision.
2. SimpleDateFormat - It's a concrete class for formatting and parsing dates in a locale-sensitive manner.

Code snippet to use :-

// Locale date and time

Date date = new Date();  

SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MM-dd-yyyy hh:mm a");

        

// Get US/Eastern time

formatter.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("US/Eastern")); 

// Prints the date in the US timezone  

System.out.println("US/Eastern date & time : " +formatter.format(date));  

        

// Set the formatter to use a different timezone  

formatter.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("IST"));  

// Prints the date in the IST timezone  

System.out.println("India date & time : " +formatter.format(date));

How to get all available Time-zones?

// To get all available Time-zones

String[] allTimeZones = TimeZone.getAvailableIDs();   

for (int i = 0; i < allTimeZones.length; i++) 

{  

    System.out.println(allTimeZones[i]); 

}

Hope it helps!! :D

Deal with Multiple Scroller inside a Webpage using Selenium

In our Automation journey, we may come across situations where we need to scroll a specific webpage or web element to traverse through contents present inside. In Selenium, we don't have any Pre-defined/built-in method for that, but we can introduce JavaScript methods to satisfy our automation needs. Please go through the examples written below to get an idea on how to do that -

Deal with Scroller present within a Web Page :

WebDriver webDriver = new FirefoxDriver();

EventFiringWebDriver eventFiringWebDriver = new EventFiringWebDriver();

eventFiringWebDriver.executeScript("scroll(<pixel-to-scroll-in-horizontal>,<pixel-to-scroll-in-vertical>)");

Note - <pixel-to-scroll-in-horizontal> and <pixel-to-scroll-in-vertical> should be the number of pixel we want to scroll through in horizontal and vertical respectively. 

For example, if we want to scroll through 100 pixels in horizontal and 200 pixels in vertical, we need to declare :

eventFiringWebDriver.executeScript("scroll(100,200)");

Deal with Scroller present within a Web Element :

WebDriver webDriver = new FirefoxDriver();

EventFiringWebDriver eventFiringWebDriver = new EventFiringWebDriver();

eventFiringWebDriver.executeScript("document.getElementById('<id-of-the-webelement>').scrollTop = <pixel-to-scroll>");

Note - <pixel-to-scroll> should be the number of pixel we want to scroll through. 

For example, if we want to scroll through 200 pixels, we need to declare :

eventFiringWebDriver.executeScript("document.getElementById('<id-of-the-webelement>').scrollTop = 200");