Daylight Savings Time

Richard Miller wow at together.net
Tue Oct 28 07:22:48 EDT 2008


Ken,

Did you test my script on a Mac or PC? On my PC it works. On my Mac,  
it doesn't. Anyone else find this to be the case? I'd really like to  
find a simpler alternative to the solution you present, if it's  
possible. But if not, thanks for offering it.

Richard


On Oct 28, 2008, at 1:35 AM, Ken Ray wrote:

>
>> This seems to work for determining if daylight savings time is in
>> effect on a given computer. Would this be reliable?
>>
>> put false into DST
>> put the short time into x
>> convert x to seconds
>> convert x to short time
>> if x <> the short time then put true into DST
>
> No, because AFAIK the act of converting the date will automatically  
> adjust
> the returned values. For example, I'm currently experiencing DST, and
> running your code returns "false".
>
> It's a lot more complicated than that (see my previous post)...
>
> ;-)
>
>
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
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