[Gambas-user] System.TimeZone Error?

[ISS Boss]

   Benoît Minisini wrote, On 05/18/2014 08:38:

Le 17/05/2014 21:55, Benoît Minisini a écrit :

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)
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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.
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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...

Since revision #6273, System.TimeZone now takes the daylight saving time 
into account.

It's not technically the timezone anymore, but I can't change the 
property name. And concretely daylight saving time changes your timezone 
after all.

Note #1: knowing the current daylight saving time needs a GNU C library 
extension coming from BSD.

Note #2: this f.....g daylight saving time coming out of the brains of 
crazy politicians wanting to control time and who certainly had smoked 
illegal products should burn in fire.

   I am with you, Benoit.  +1
   Bill