[Gambas-user] problem with the CDate function

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 02/05/2018 à 15:38, Gianluigi a écrit :
> 
> 
> 2018-05-02 15:18 GMT+02:00 Mayost Sharon <sharon at 455.co.il 
> <mailto:sharon at 455.co.il>>:
> 
>     Hello
> 
>     Operating system: Fedora 27 64 BIT
>     Gambas 3.10.0
> 
>     I have a problem with the CDate function when I run the example that
>     appears in this
>     documentation:
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>     It takes me back one day
> 
>     I run:
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>     Print CDate ("09/06/1972 01:45:12")
> 
>     And it returns to me:
> 
>     09/05/1972 22:45:12
> 
> 
> You must use Date and not CDate which locates the UTC date [0].
> 
> Regards
> Gianluigi
> [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time
> 

No, it's not the problem.

It's just that people must understand that CDate() interprets its 
argument as an UTC date, and that Str() (hence Print) converts a date 
into a local representation.

So if you use CDate(), you must use CStr() to go back to the original 
string. Otherwise, use Val() and Str().

See the documentation about these functions. I think some non-american 
examples should be added to make things clearer.

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini