On Wed, 11 Jul 2012, José Mejuto wrote:
Hello FPC,
Wednesday, July 11, 2012, 4:38:19 PM, you wrote:
Anyway the functions are nonsense as they accept a parameter for date
to be converted.
MVC> Not if they have the TZOffset parameter as well.
MVC> Without this information they are indeed nonsense.
MVC> That is why I added the parameter.
Well, I undertand it, I was only trying to note that this code:
A:=Now;
B:=GetLocalTimeOffSet;
C:=LocalTimeToUniversal(A,B);
Will not return correct result in some mini-mili-microseconds slices
two times a year, and as more time passes between the assignements of
A and B (using a time field in databases, it could be days, years,
months...) the chances of a wrong conversion will raise a lot.
This is correct, but unavoidable without a huge implementation like TZPascal...
Even 'Now' itself is not 100% correct, since lots of computations are still
done after the time was gotten from the OS...
Michael.
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