aha, the implementation of NowUTC is a bit more complex then I thought =D I tested it in Mac OS X and in a linux in a virtual machine and it worked perfectly, but now I tested in a linux machine and it failed ... and I just found that in my system I have:
/etc/sysconfig/clock UTC=false <-- problem here ARC=false ZONE=Poland So NowUTC is not really necessarily immune to the lookup of files in Linux. But I still maintain that it is a very useful routine. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel