[Gambas-user] Possible CDATE issue Latest version

[Brian G]

----- On Nov 19, 2022, at 9:43 AM, Benoit Minisini benoit.minisini at gambas-basic.org wrote:

> Le 19/11/2022 à 17:26, Brian G a écrit :
>> 
>> ----- On Nov 19, 2022, at 2:43 AM, Benoit Minisini
>> benoit.minisini at gambas-basic.org wrote:
>> 
>>> Le 18/11/2022 à 20:36, Brian G a écrit :
>>>> With the latest version of gambas, I am getting the strangest issue, I
>>>> dont understand, not sure if its a bug
>>>> cdate returns different values if called with a class public variable.
>>>> Locks like possibly like in the last case
>>>> its return the gmt time.
>>>>
>>>> Hello world                     11/18/2022 11:30:56
>>>> CDATE(now)                      11/18/2022 11:30:56
>>>> Eval("cdate(now)")              11/18/2022 11:30:56
>>>> dim thedate as string = "CDate(now)"
>>>> Try ddate = Eval(thedate)       11/18/2022 19:30:56.895
>>>>
>>>
>>> The printed strings are normal. What did you expect?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Benoît Minisini.
>>>
>>>
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>> 
>> I expect the times to all be the same, the last time printed is a different time
>> zone
>> although the same expression is being evaluated.
>> 
> 
> It can't be the same as in your script, 'ddate' is a string that
> receives the result of evaluating an expression that returns a date.
> 
> Hence this date is converted to a string automatically with CDate() to
> be put inside the 'ddate' variable, and so you get the UTC
> representation of the date as returned by CDate().
> 
> Regards,
> 
> --
> Benoît Minisini.
> 
> 
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Maybe I am just a bit thick but I had expected

print   cdate(now)

and 

dim a as string = cdate(now)
print a

To produce the same output value! 

This is what is produced

11/19/2022 10:19:18
11/19/2022 18:19:18.16


if this is correct output, why it seems so very wrong!

and doing this

print date(now)
or
a = date(now)
print a

produces as output

11/19/2022 00:00:00
11/19/2022 08:00:00

This also seems incorrect...