Hello FPC-Pascal, Monday, July 25, 2011, 6:23:21 PM, you wrote:
JH> And even if dates are correctly stored in UTC it is not easy to reliably JH> get back the "local time". Daylight savings were changed in the past JH> (and may also change in the future). If you have a date/time of JH> 2001-05-01 18:00 UTC it is not easy to predict what local time it was in JH> time zone x. You would need a history of all daylight saving algorithms JH> of the past and the future for all time zones (or even countries). This already exists, but future settings are impossible to predict, so a local time in the future is a no-no and should be avoided as much as possible. -- Best regards, José _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
