> Graham S. wrote > Thanks to all those who replied - ‘the internet date’ was the > answer I needed, since I then didn’t have to get out of my > LiveCode comfort zone to do the calculation. I’m thinking of > time-stamping some interactions that are going to go through > a program I’m running on LiveCode Server. Right now I have it > running on DreamHost, whose servers presumably stay in one > place, but I wanted an invariant time stamp not depending on > the location of the server or of any particular user, so I > saw UTC as the way to go. My issue was that I didn’t know of > a command that I could run on the server, or a url to a public > time server, that would just give me UTC in its simplest form > without leaving LiveCode - probably very lazy of me, but I want > to keep things as simple as I can. I have now written a little > homegrown routine that uses ‘the internet date’ which seems to > work fine. Thanks again Graham
One remark to the internet date (which is the date format I always use and then convert to dateItems if needed for calculations). If using recent or future dates one should have in mind that "the internet date" respects **daylight saving offsets** of the dates. You can see that with a HTML5 standalone http://hh-onrev.com/html5/countUpOrDown-8.0.0-dp-9X.html that counts up to the LC meeting. Click at the bottom field to change the date from August to March and you(?) will see the UTC offset changing by -1 hour. [Use Safari, Chrome or Opera. Currently NOT Firefox (v45, again with v46)] hh _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
