Date and time format question

[Bob Sneidar]

That doesn’t work I’ll get back to you. 

Bob S


> On Jul 29, 2024, at 2:37 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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> Convert it to dateitems, then back again. 
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> Bob S
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>> On Jul 29, 2024, at 2:09 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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>> Follow up question/request:
>> 
>> put the internet date into tTimestamp -- stores something like Mon, 29 Jul 2024 16:49:52 -0400, where the -0400 is the time zone offset
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>> Anyone have some already written code to convert this to a time in GMT (i.e where the time zone offset is +0000, i.e. Mon, 29 Jul 2024 20:49:52 +0000)?
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>> It is adding the offset to the hours and minutes, but you have to handle carry over, potentially adding or subtracting a day.
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>> If the best approach converting to seconds and the doing the math and converting back? (I think this is the answer)
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