I have uncovered a Major (BLOCKER) Windows bug related to the most recent change in Daylight Savings Time for the United States. Revolution will overcompensate for the DST by adding and additional hour to the time whenever you execute 'convert'. To see what I mean, make sure you have "Automatically adjust clock for Daylight Savings Time" turned on in your Date/Time prefs, launch Rev (or MC) under at least XP Pro or Vista Home Premium (the two systems I tested), and type:
put the time into x;convert x to long time;put x You should see that the time you get back is one more hour ahead of your current time. So if it is currently 2:05 PM without the DST adjustment, and you have the checkbox checked, Windows will show that it is 3:05 PM (correct). But if you run the code above, x will be "4:05:00 PM". I can only assume that when Rev asks the OS for the time it gets two factors the non-adjusted time, and a flag whether DST is currently applied. In the past, Windows would have handed over "2:05" and "True" (in the example above), and Rev would have adjusted the time accordingly. But the latest Windows XP/Vista DST patch seems to be handing over the ADJUSTED time, and the flag, so it would hand over "3:05" and "True", so Rev is over-adjusting by another hour. There is no easy scripted fix other than finding every location where 'convert' is used and parsing strings into chunks.... yechh! I have logged this into Bugzilla as bug #4526. This is a MAJOR BLOCKER problem and is going to hit a LOT of people, so forwarned is forearmed... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard