Working with seconds, what am I missing?

[Mike Bonner]

the internet date will most likely work too so go that way I think!

On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 3:02 PM, John Dixon <dixonja at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

>
> the internet date might be what you are looking for
>
>
> >
> > Trying to work with seconds to avoid format issues with dates in
> different countries I keep running into this issue,  and im probably just
> missing something very obvious!
> >
> > Using the following simple code today (the 22nd April)..
> >
> >    put the date into tDate
> >    convert tDate to seconds
> >    put tDate
> >
> > Returns 1335049200
> >
> > Id expect to get a result of 22nd April,  but instead Ive fed that in to
> a few online UNIX time converters and they all return Sat, 21 Apr 2012
> 23:00:00 GMT which is an hour into the previous day.
> >
> > Im assuming its something to do with GMT / daylight savings time,  but
> is there a reliable way to get and use the seconds.  Id like to ensure the
> values stored are correct.
> >
> > Andy
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