Peter Bogdanoff wrote: > And… if anyone has a method that doesn’t rely on the user’s local > date/time I’d like to hear that…
Using "the seconds" returns a value that accounts for local GMT offset. with the value returned being for GMT.
So if you get the seconds and then display them on a machine set to a different time zone, the time zone will be taken into account when using the convert command to display them in any human-readable format.
FWIW "the internet date" is similarly useful for converting to other formats in ways that take local time zone into account.
AFAIK those are the only two built-in date formats that account for GMT offset, but I've used both for network services where users trade data across many time zones and they work quite well.
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