Is the DateFormat read only?

[J. Landman Gay]

Good point. For our situation, hours were enough so I guess I ignored the rest (it was a long 
time ago and the code is old.)

On 10/30/20 3:24 PM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote:
> But that will only work for those time zones whose variation from UTC is an exact number of hours.
> 
> the internet date has 4 digits so that it can handle hour and minute variations - you could change
> 
>    subtract (char 1 to -3 of last word of the internet date) from item 4 of tTime
> 
> to
> 
>    put the last word of the internet time into tmp
>    subtract (char 1 to -3 of tmp) from item 4 of tTime
>    subtract (char 1 of tmp & char -2 to -1 of tmp) ) from item 5 of tTime
> 
> and then you would be handling all cases correctly.
> 
> Alex.
> 
> On 30/10/2020 20:06, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote:
>> On 10/29/20 4:33 PM, Graham Samuel via use-livecode wrote:
>>> The only souci with this format is that it gives the month in alpha, presumably according to 
>>> the nationality of the OS. But it’s easy to get the numeric month in other ways. Still, it 
>>> is just a little bit fiddly to create a full UTC date of the format:
>>>
>>> YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD
>>
>> Here's something I use:
>>
>>   put the seconds into tTime
>>   convert tTime to dateitems
>>   subtract (char 1 to -3 of last word of the internet date) from item 4 of tTime
>>   convert tTime to dateitems
>>   set the numberformat to "00"
>>   put item 1 of tTime &"-"& (item 2 of tTime)+0 &"-"& (item 3 of tTime)+0 & "T" & (item 4 of 
>> tTime)+0 &":"& \
>>         (item 5 of tTime)+0 &":"& (item 6 of tTime)+0 & "Z" into tTimestamp
>>
> 
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