Sorry Kevin, I don't get it either. I wrote a little converter to take the millisecond value (stuff after the point) and convert it to hours minutes seconds, according to the standard algorithm... and I get a time that doesn't seem to bear much resemblance to the actual time on my system, nor to GMT, but it does increment per second/per minute as I'd expect!
Dim rightNow As Float Dim remain, allSeconds, seconds, minutes, hours As Integer rightNow = Now Print CDate(rightNow) Print "With day: " & rightNow rightNow = rightNow - CFloat(Int(rightNow)) Print "Just time: " & rightNow allSeconds = Int(rightNow * 100000000) Print "Milliseconds: " & allSeconds allSeconds = Int(allSeconds / 1000) ' For testing a specific example off the web ' See http://www.unitarium.com/blog/tag/algorithm ' Scroll down to example 2, use method 1 'allSeconds = 43870 Print "All Seconds: " & allSeconds seconds = allSeconds Mod 3600 Print "Seconds less hours: " & seconds hours = Int(allSeconds / 3600) Print "Hours: " & hours remain = seconds Mod 60 Print "Seconds less minutes: " & remain minutes = Int(seconds / 60) Print "Minutes: " & minutes seconds = remain Print "It is now " & hours & ":" & minutes & ":" & seconds & " GMT" Confused, Caveat On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 01:35 -0700, John Spikowski wrote: > On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 04:16 -0400, Kevin Fishburne wrote: > > On 06/23/2011 03:54 AM, John Spikowski wrote: > > > On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 03:16 -0400, Kevin Fishburne wrote: > > > > > >> I'm reading about GMT on Wikipedia now... How would one interpret the > > >> returned values with respect to GMT? > > >> > > > There are 25 integer World Time Zones from -12 through 0 (GMT) to +12. > > > Each one is 15° of Longitude as measured East and West from the Prime > > > Meridian of the World at Greenwich, England. > > > > Thank you. > > > > Why should I have to reference a time zone when sending a float between > > two computers? The date sent is artificial, so maybe it's affected by > > localization or something weird like that. Are date functions > > automatically calculated against the host machine's system clock and > > time zone? > > > > The time returned by Linux is seconds past midnight of Jan. 1st 1970. > (based on GMT) Here is a ScriptBasic example to explain. > > PRINT "Seconds past Jan. 1st, 1970 at midnight GMT","\n\n" > PRINT "Local: ",NOW,"\n" > PRINT " GMT: ",GMTIME,"\n" > > jrs@laptop:~/sb/test$ scriba Linux_Time > Seconds past Jan. 1st, 1970 at midnight GMT > > Local: 1308792888 > GMT: 1308818088 > jrs@laptop:~/sb/test$ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. > Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, > secure and there when you need it. Data protection magic? > Nope - It's vRanger. Get your free trial download today. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-sfdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Gambas-user mailing list > Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Data protection magic? Nope - It's vRanger. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
