System Time Zone

Mark Wieder ahsoftware at sonic.net
Wed Sep 7 20:14:42 EDT 2022


On 9/7/22 16:47, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:

> It's the, "America/Los_Angeles" bit I am trying to find a way to grok. How can I extract that in LC? Isn't there some kind of function that will return the current system's time zone?

linux:
put the last word of shell("date")

osx:
put word -2 of shell("date")

Windows (possibly one of these)
NOTE: empirically these return different values. ymmv:
tzutil /g
systeminfo | findstr /C:”Time Zone”

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  Mark Wieder
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