[Gambas-user] Possible CDATE issue Latest version

[Jussi Lahtinen]

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Jussi

On Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 8:27 PM Brian G <brian at westwoodsvcs.com> wrote:

> ----- 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...
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