I've done more testing of this problem. If anyone is interested, check out bug 1162 <http://www.runrev.com/revolution/developers/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi? id=1162> which includes a demo stack to show what I'm talking about.While I haven't encountered the short & long day problem, there is a severe problem with the convert command if your system uses daylight-saving. Basically, EVERY call to the convert command, adds an hour to the time converted, if daylight saving is on. There are numerous reports in bugzilla about various date conversion problems (62, 816, 1124, 1162) and I am trying to get the folks at RunRev to see this as a critical problem.
I just looked at the above bugs. I get the same results as were reported with #62; that is, I get a 2 instead of a 0 when converting a plain date to date items when no time is specified.
The others work okay for me though, and I don't see any extra hour added to the conversion results. I'm in daylight time right now in the U.S. Could it be related to time zones outside the U.S.?
I guess - I'll have to do more tests. Perhaps setting my location to Edinburgh and then proving a problem might get me somewhere :-)
I have found something you can use as an indicator of the problem: take the date you are using (no time) and convert it to dateItems. If the hours item comes back as 2 then convert will work. If the hours item comes back as a 3, EVERY use of the convert command will add 1 to the hours.
The problems seems to be confined to OS X and to positive time zones (i.e. those East of Greenwich) with daylight savings. The computer's clock doesn't need to be on daylight-savings for the problem to occur - it will appear for any date which is inside the daylight savings period.
However, I think we are making some progress in getting this identified as a serious bug, as Bugzilla now has it Assigned and with a target milestone of 2.2!
Cheers, Sarah [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.troz.net/Rev/
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