Really, I do not know if a standard exists, valid in every country around the world.
For example, in Italy (where I am) the last change was last sunday in october, and always at 3:00 AM, not 2:00 AM. Thanks for any help. ----- Original Message ----- From: Glenn B. Lawler To: '[email protected]' Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 10:43 PM Subject: RE: [delphi-en] conversions between UTC and local time Mauro, >is there at least some API giving the "next time" there will be a change on local time >with respect UTC? Why not just calculate the dates yourself? The rules have changed over the years, AFAIK, the current rules are: 1. 2nd Sunday in March at 2:00 AM, add one hour. 2. 1st Sunday in November at 2:00 AM, subtract one hour. There are a number of ways to calculate the next date based on these rules. Check the Delphi help on EncodeDate, DecodeDate, and DayOfWeek. The TDateTime type is a double (floating point) number. The integral part is the number of days since a particular reference date (+/-) and the fractional part is the fraction of a day to represent the time. We don't need the time for this problem. Think about the simplest approach you could use to manually determine the date of the Nth day of the week in a given month. Write a function that returns the date of the next daylight change given a starting date. Let us know if you need help on the particulars of implementing this. While this problem may seem difficult at first, the way to deal with it (or any other non-trivial problem) is to break it down into simpler steps which can individually be solved easily. Glenn Lawler www.incodesystems.com -----Original Message----- From: mauro russo [SMTP:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 1:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [delphi-en] conversions between UTC and local time Dear, is there at least some API giving the "next time" there will be a change on local time with respect UTC? ----- Original Message ----- From: Rob Kennedy To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 3:31 PM Subject: Re: [delphi-en] conversions between UTC and local time mauro russo wrote: > Dear all, > > I am using the following function in order to obtain the bias between local time and UTC: > > > function GetTimeZoneBias_min(): Integer; > var tz: TTimeZoneInformation; > begin > case GetTimeZoneInformation(tz) of > TIME_ZONE_ID_STANDARD: Result := -(tz.StandardBias + tz.Bias); > TIME_ZONE_ID_DAYLIGHT: Result := -(tz.DaylightBias + tz.Bias); > else > Result := 0; > end; > end; > > > and I use the result Res in the formula: locla_time = UTC + Res. > > > > Now, I would like to obtain the bias not at the current time, but according to a given UTC value. > > For example, now UTC is 9:47 at the 27th of october, > but how to obtain the bias when UTC was, for example, 8:35 at the 5th of july? If the StandardDate and DaylightDate members of TTimeZoneInformation don't have what you need, then Windows does not have what you need. -- Rob ---------- Questa email e stata verificata dal sistema centralizzato antivirus della UniPlan Software [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------- Home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ To unsubscribe: [email protected]! Groups Links ---------- Questa email รจ stata verificata dal sistema centralizzato antivirus della UniPlan Software [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------- Home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ To unsubscribe: [email protected]! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
