[Gambas-user] Time, date & Settings

[PICCORO McKAY Lenz]

similar behavior occurs me when i swicht languajes and manipulates amounts
in my POS system, in english vs spanish decimals alternate with "," and "."
and theres no way to use an universa only form..

u must stored separated..

Lenz McKAY Gerardo (PICCORO)
http://qgqlochekone.blogspot.com

2017-03-26 20:11 GMT-04:00 Jussi Lahtinen <jussi.lahtinen at ...626...>:

> Hi!
> I'm trying to figure way to handle time & date correctly, ignoring timezone
> and "daylight saving" adjustments. I can't get things work nicely with
> settings component as it does not save&load the value in universal format.
> Example if you write settings in English and open them in Finnish, you will
> get silent error:
>
> Print Settings[sPath &/ "Date&Time", Null]
> 03/27/2017 12:00:00  <--- this is correct time
>
> Print Val(Settings[sPath &/ "Date&Time", Null])
> This returns nothing, not even error.
>
> Print CDate(Settings[sPath &/ "Date&Time", Null])
> 27.03.2017 09.00.00  <--- this is incorrect time
>
> This is from the GAlarm project and I want to ignore timezones etc, because
> I want the alarms go off accordingly to the computer clock. IE alarm set to
> go off at 12:00 should go off, if computer clock shows 12:00. Not at 09:00,
> because I cannot know what timezone the user meant, so I always assume
> local.
>
>
> Do I have to write seconds, minutes, hours, etc separately in the settings
> or could this be fixed somehow..?
>
>
>
> Jussi
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