Working with seconds, what am I missing?

Richmond richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Mon Apr 23 04:34:06 EDT 2012


What happens if you do a "put the seconds" on a computer
that is not internet connected?

> Andy,
>
> As you've discovered seconds is based on GMT so it will cause differences
> based on everyone's system settings, there are work arounds as suggested
> but it may be easier just to:
>
> put the date into tDate
> convert tDate to dateItems
> put tDate
>
> The output will always be YYYY,MM,DD,HH,MM,SS,day of week, and if you
> haven't included a time then, YYYY,MM,DD,0,0,0,day of week.
>
> Regardless of the system setting, the GMT correction, or personal
> preferences, you can always correctly determine the local date and time of
> a users computer using dateItems.
>
> HTH
>
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Andrew Henshaw<henshaw at me.com>  wrote:
>
>> 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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