On 20 July 2016 at 13:31, Marco van de Voort <[email protected]> wrote:
> In our previous episode, Denis Kozlov said: > > Is it possible to move NowUTC from LazUTF8SysUtils.NowUTC to FPC, e.g. > > DateUtils? > > > > LocalTimeToUniversal(Now) is inefficient and suffers from a race > condition, > > but can still be used as a fallback implementation. > > Isn't that horribly misnamed? It seems to get system time without > additional > timezone corrections by FPC, but there is no guarantee that that is UTC? > Do you mean "NowUTC" is misnamed? Sure, just as many other things, but consistency is gold-ish ;) I'm not sure why you say there is no guarantee, because in example of Windows implementation GetSystemTime API is explicitly expressed in UTC according to MSDN. Denis
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