> > That is also what most of the underlying databases do. They store > > everything in UTC and convert to local time. Only for those that > > support "timezoned" field types (fe. oracle timestamp_TZ) you can > > specify a timezone when entering data. MySQL fe. doesn't > have support for this. > > > > Ludo > > > > Mmmm. For example, IIRC, Firebird just stores it as entered - > no UTC conversion. Sensible developers on multi country > Firebird db projects would probably store convert date/time > info to UTC in the database. >
I'm talking about internal database storage. On the binary level. If you move a database to a system with a different timezone the dates display differently when stored internally in UTC. Ludo _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
