What happens if you do a "put the seconds" on a computer
that is not internet connected?
Andy,
As you've discovered seconds is based on GMT so it will cause differences
based on everyone's system settings, there are work arounds as suggested
but it may be easier just to:
put the date into tDate
convert tDate to dateItems
put tDate
The output will always be YYYY,MM,DD,HH,MM,SS,day of week, and if you
haven't included a time then, YYYY,MM,DD,0,0,0,day of week.
Regardless of the system setting, the GMT correction, or personal
preferences, you can always correctly determine the local date and time of
a users computer using dateItems.
HTH
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Andrew Henshaw<hens...@me.com> wrote:
Trying to work with seconds to avoid format issues with dates in different
countries I keep running into this issue, and im probably just missing
something very obvious!
Using the following simple code today (the 22nd April)..
put the date into tDate
convert tDate to seconds
put tDate
Returns 1335049200
Id expect to get a result of 22nd April, but instead Ive fed that in to a
few online UNIX time converters and they all return Sat, 21 Apr 2012
23:00:00 GMT which is an hour into the previous day.
Im assuming its something to do with GMT / daylight savings time, but is
there a reliable way to get and use the seconds. Id like to ensure the
values stored are correct.
Andy
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