[Gambas-user] Date(Now) with time component under Ubuntu?

[Jussi Lahtinen]

I must confess I don't understand the date & time functions, no matter how
many times Benoit says it's easy...
No matter what I try the timezone cancer bites me two times every year.


Jussi

On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 1:23 PM Gianluigi <bagonergi at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> Il giorno lun 10 dic 2018 alle ore 11:36 Rolf-Werner Eilert <
> rwe-sse at osnanet.de> ha scritto:
>
>> Am 06.12.18 um 22:48 schrieb Benoît Minisini:
>> > Le 06/12/2018 à 18:59, Gianluigi a écrit :
>> >> You nust not have to mix the functions that locate (Date, Str, Val)
>> >> with those that do not locate (CDate, CString).
>> >> "Date" takes away the time part.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Or, if it's clearer for you Rolf, Date() moves the date to midnight in
>> > your timezone.
>> >
>>
>> Yes, that means the time part remains in the string and is not cut away
>> - as the help text suggests and as it used to be before.
>>
>> Though I would consider this to be logical:
>>
>> Day(Now) =  only the calendar day (as integer)
>> Year(Now) = only the year (as integer)
>> Date(Now) = only the date part
>> Time(Now) = only the time part
>>
>> But anyway, I've adapted my program to it, so there's no more problem
>> right now. I'd only suggest someone adapts the help text to avoid
>> confusion.
>>
>> Regards
>> Rolf
>>
>
> With the dates it's easy to get confused, I think everyone happens, it
> happens to me often.
> It is important to remember that when we use Print, Debug but I also think
> of the Text property, Gambas creates a local conversion of type string
> (Str$) [0]
>
> Regards
> Gianluigi
>
> [0] http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/lang/debug
>
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