I agree it would be great to make these additions to the addon
cross-platform. I'm also clueless on the best ways to do this outside
Windows (which is why they aren't there already ;))
Anybody have any advice?


On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Pascal Jasmin <[email protected]>wrote:

> adding 4 functions to this file:
>
> ~addons/types/datetime/datetime.ijs
>
>
> Now_z_ =: 6!:0
> utcBIAS_z_ =: 0,~ >1{ getTimeZoneInfo_rgsdatetime_ ''
> utc_z_ =: tsPlus&utcBIAS
> utcnow_z_ =: utc@:Now
>
>
>    utcBIAS
> 300 0
> this gives a utc adjusted current local time:
>    utcnow ''
> 2013 10 20 1 9 21.346
>
> utcBIAS relies on the windows api.  Though its a noun set once at startup,
> It's kludgy in case of running after a DST change or other system clock
> change.
>
>
> Is there a cygwin (or other windows) api call to get utctime, that would
> be easily portable to unix/mac and smartphones?
>
> If not, do each of the platforms have a command line or dll call to set
> utcBIAS?
>
> which approach would be recommended?
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