[Gambas-user] System.TimeZone Error?

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 10/05/2014 17:32, Wolfgang, dl7nb a écrit :
> Hi,
> System.TimeZone is defined as follows:
>
>      Return the system timezone.
>      The returned value is the number of seconds you must add to the
> locale time to get the UTC time.
>
> *That is not always done correctly. *
>
> During winter I used it and it has a result of 3600. This is correct as
> the difference between UTC and the time her in Germany is 1 hour (or
> 3600 seconds)
> -
> But now (summertime) we have daylight saving time, which means we have a
> difference of 2 hours. System.TimeZone still shows 3600. It should show
> 7200 to have the correct number of seconds.
> -
> So how can I find out what UTC.time really is??
> How can I solve this problem?
>
> regards Wolfgang
>

Apparently, the daylight saving time is not taken into account. I'd like 
to know how I can get this information from the system...

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Benoît Minisini