On Jan 4, 2007, at 2:11 PM, Norman Palardy wrote:
On Jan 04, 2007, at 2:44 PM, Tom Benson wrote:
I am implementing a basic CRM for a client than manages contacts
across multiple time zones.
They'd like a "customer's local time" clock to be shown in that
contacts card, based on the customers country,city values, and
don't mind using the net to retrieve GMT offsets.
They'd also like to use the control to do project time
translation. E.G, someone schedules an IM conference for 9am in
Sydney, and it localises accross everyon's calendar based on where
they currently are.
Has anyone done anything like this before, or at least know of a
place to start looking (esp. for a freely accessible time offset
resource)
What version of RB are you using ?
In 2006 and up there is a GMT offset already as part of the Date class
The trick then becomes converting one time in one timezone to one
in a different timezone
I've done stuff like this but I'm not sure I have any code I can
give you
Each OS has a way to get the current GMT offset but not necessarily
one to get the GMT offset on a given date
However, in RB 2006 you can use the Date class to figure it out for
an arbitrary date
I have an example of the Declares required prior to 2006r3.
Terry
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