Hi Greg,
No need for confusion or embarrassment :-)
This is a known bug that I was ranting about for months but I thought it had been fixed in Rev 2.5 - what version are you using?
Here is a link to the bug which will give you all the info. <http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=1162>
I wrote a bugFixConvert routine to do conversions without adding the hour and I have also written a routine that uses AppleScript to find the number of minutes or seconds of daylight saving currently in use. If you would like either of these, email me off-list.
Cheers, Sarah [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.troz.net/Rev/
On 20 Nov 2004, at 4:23 pm, Gregory Lypny wrote:
Having trouble understanding the Convert command. I'm playing with the following handler and using day/month/year format.
on mouseUp set useSystemDate to true get fld "date" convert it to long date and long time put it into fld "converted date" end mouseUp
The online documentation for the Convert command notes:
"If you convert a date without a time to a form that includes the time, the time will be given as 2 AM. (This is the default time because it is the time of day when Daylight Savings Time begins and ends.)"
If I enter 1/10/2004 in the date field, I get Friday, October 01, 2004 3:00:00 AM, which is not 2 AM. And if I enter 1/10/2004 0:00:00, I get Friday, October 01, 2004 1:00:00 AM.
I have many events occurring at 11:45 PM, where my data file contains entries with 23:45:00, but entering 1/10/2004 23:45:00 gives me Saturday, October 02, 2004 12:45:00 AM.
Finally, entering 1/10/2004 23:45:00 once again, and converting to the long seconds gives me 1096692300, and converting back to the short date and time gives me, 02/10/2004 12:45 AM, so I don't go back to where I was before!
Am I missing something obvious, or does the Convert command assume that the day starts at 1 AM rather than the stroke of midnight? The same is true when converting to the dateItems. Do I have to subtract one hour from all of my data to use it reliably?
Confused and likely embarrassed later,
Greg
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