Emmanuel, > Does anyone know of a free component that converts the local time to UTC and back to another time zone local time?
I am not sure what your application is for these converted times, or what time structure you are using. If you are talking about TDateTime, changing from one timezone to another is simply a matter of subtracting your UTC offset. For example, US Pacific time is -8, so you subtract -8 from the current time to calculate UTC time. If it is 1 AM minus -8 is 9 AM. To convert from UTC time to another local time, just add the offset. Since TDateTime is a numeric (double) type, you can just calculate the number. If you are talking about file times, there are Windows API calls available. GetFileTime returns the CreationTime, LastAccessTime, and LastWriteTime for an open file handle. These times are UTC times, if the file system is NTFS. FileTimeToLocalFileTime converts a UTC file time to the local time of the machine. If you tell me more about what you are trying to do with these times, I can tell you specifically how I would handle the situation. Glenn Lawler www.incodesystems.com
