Re: sString = Date(hBlah) returns 11pm

[Bruce Steers <bsteers4@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 13 Apr 2024 at 07:04, Gianluigi <gradobag@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Il 13/04/24 03:13, Jussi Lahtinen ha scritto:
> >     If you know the format of the date sString gets and it doesn't
> >     change (ie you're not changing locales) then you can also do:
> >
> >     sString = Replace(str(Date(Now)),"  00:00:00","")
> >
> >     After that: Print sString
> >
> >     will only print the date.
> >
> >
> > This does not work if the application is running on a laptop and you
> > travel or you simply live in a country that uses daylight "saving" time.
> > IE, no need to change locales to mess it up.
> >
> > Jussi
>
> This routine:
>
> Public Sub Main()
>
>    Print CStr(Date(Now)) '<--- no local
>    Print Str(Date(Now))
>    Print Date(Now)
>    Print Format(Now, gb.MediumDate)
>
> End
>
> here outputs this result to console:
>
> 04/12/2024 22:00:00
> 13/04/2024 00:00:00
> 13/04/2024 00:00:00
> 13/04/2024
>
> Regards
> Gianluigi
>

What I find confusing is that a couple of weeks ago assigning it to a
String did NOT print the time part.

Now it does.
I suddenly noticed the Scoreboards on my Blockski+ game were displaying
incorrectly.  and they deffo did not when i wrote the code.

I dunno what changed?