Using seconds in Revolution

[Sarah Reichelt]

>> While I haven't encountered the short & long day problem, there is a 
>> severe problem with the convert command if your system uses 
>> daylight-saving. Basically, EVERY call to the convert command, adds 
>> an hour to the time converted, if daylight saving is on. There are 
>> numerous reports in bugzilla about various date conversion problems 
>> (62, 816, 1124, 1162) and I am trying to get the folks at RunRev to 
>> see this as a critical problem.
>
> I just looked at the above bugs. I get the same results as were 
> reported with #62; that is, I get a 2 instead of a 0 when converting a 
> plain date to date items when no time is specified.
>
> The others work okay for me though, and I don't see any extra hour 
> added to the conversion results. I'm in daylight time right now in the 
> U.S. Could it be related to time zones outside the U.S.?

I guess - I'll have to do more tests. Perhaps setting my location to 
Edinburgh and then proving a problem might get me somewhere :-)

Sarah