On Sat, 10 May 2014 17:32:13 +0200
"Wolfgang, dl7nb" <dl...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> System.TimeZone is defined as follows:
>
> Return the system timezone.
> The returned value is the number of seconds you must add to the
> locale time to get the UTC time.
>
> *That is not always done correctly. *
Actually, it is correct, it just doesn't recognize "daylight savings". The
reason lies deep inside the way tzutils works and somewhere in the extensive
documentation. (I have forgotten where.)
>
> During winter I used it and it has a result of 3600. This is correct as
> the difference between UTC and the time her in Germany is 1 hour (or
> 3600 seconds)
> -
> But now (summertime) we have daylight saving time, which means we have a
> difference of 2 hours. System.TimeZone still shows 3600. It should show
> 7200 to have the correct number of seconds.
> -
> So how can I find out what UTC.time really is??
> How can I solve this problem?
Probably the simplest way is :
Shell ("date --utc") To sUTCDate
You can use the date options to return the string as you require it.
hth
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B Bruen <bbr...@paddys-hill.net>
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