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 :-)
>
I've done more testing of this problem. If anyone is interested, check  
out bug 1162  
<http://www.runrev.com/revolution/developers/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi? 
id=1162> which includes a demo stack to show what I'm talking about.

I have found something you can use as an indicator of the problem: take  
the date you are using (no time) and convert it to dateItems. If the  
hours item comes back as 2 then convert will work. If the hours item  
comes back as a 3, EVERY use of the convert command will add 1 to the  
hours.

The problems seems to be confined to OS X and to positive time zones  
(i.e. those East of Greenwich) with daylight savings. The computer's  
clock doesn't need to be on daylight-savings for the problem to occur -  
it will appear for any date which is inside the daylight savings  
period.

However, I think we are making some progress in getting this identified  
as a serious bug, as Bugzilla now has it Assigned and with a target  
milestone of 2.2!

Cheers,
Sarah
sarahr at genesearch.com.au
http://www.troz.net/Rev/