[Gambas-user] System.TimeZone Error?

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 17/05/2014 21:32, Benoît Minisini a écrit :
> 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...
>

OK, I think I got it and understood what I did wrong...

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Benoît Minisini