Thank you, Ray. But my problem is in extracting the local machine timezone rather than computing the UTC time or local time.
Emmanuel --- In delphi-en@yahoogroups.com, "Glenn B. Lawler" <gblaw...@...> wrote: > > > Subtracting 8 from Pacific time would result in the same time, but 8 > *days* before! > > Quite right. What I had in mind, but failed to include explicitly, was > something like this: > > UTC_Time:=MyTime - (EncodeTime(1,0,0,0) * MyOffset); > > LocalTime:=UTC_Time + (EncodeTime(1,0,0,0) * MyOffset); > > Glenn Lawler > www.incodesystems.com >