Re: [Lazarus] Is there a function that returns UTC time in FPC or Lazarus?
On 31-3-2012 2:56, João Marcelo Vaz wrote: 2012/3/30 Reinier Olislagers reinierolislag...@gmail.com mailto:reinierolislag...@gmail.com On 30-3-2012 16:05, Frank Church wrote: Is there a function that returns the UTC time, either as a UnixTime or TDateTime irregardless of timezone? There is a separate unit that deals with this, IIRC, the wiki mentions it somewhere.. Regards, Reinier PascalTZ does that. http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/PascalTZ Thanks, João, that's the one I meant! Reinier -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Is there a function that returns UTC time in FPC or Lazarus?
In the package lazutils there is: unit lazutf8sysutils; function NowUTC: TDateTime; function GetTickCount64: QWord; -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Is there a function that returns UTC time in FPC or Lazarus?
On 30 March 2012 15:05, Frank Church vfcli...@gmail.com wrote: When I get the time via the DateTime function result is adapted for the timezone, making it an hour ahead now? Is there a function that returns the UTC time, either as a UnixTime or TDateTime irregardless of timezone? -- Frank Church === http://devblog.brahmancreations.com PascalTZ appears to be the most recommended one. I will go with it and see. If it comes to the worst, I will consider looking up the time from an NTP server to see how it compares as a check. -- Frank Church === http://devblog.brahmancreations.com -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] Is there a function that returns UTC time in FPC or Lazarus?
When I get the time via the DateTime function result is adapted for the timezone, making it an hour ahead now? Is there a function that returns the UTC time, either as a UnixTime or TDateTime irregardless of timezone? -- Frank Church === http://devblog.brahmancreations.com -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Is there a function that returns UTC time in FPC or Lazarus?
On 30-3-2012 16:05, Frank Church wrote: When I get the time via the DateTime function result is adapted for the timezone, making it an hour ahead now? Is there a function that returns the UTC time, either as a UnixTime or TDateTime irregardless of timezone? Frank, You could search the fpc and lazarus mailing list; I know there've been posts regarding this. IIRC, the conclusion was that doing this is potentially very difficult to do cross platform, keeping daylight saving changes etc in mind. There is a separate unit that deals with this, IIRC, the wiki mentions it somewhere.. Regards, Reinier -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Is there a function that returns UTC time in FPC or Lazarus?
2012/3/30 Reinier Olislagers reinierolislag...@gmail.com On 30-3-2012 16:05, Frank Church wrote: When I get the time via the DateTime function result is adapted for the timezone, making it an hour ahead now? Is there a function that returns the UTC time, either as a UnixTime or TDateTime irregardless of timezone? Frank, You could search the fpc and lazarus mailing list; I know there've been posts regarding this. IIRC, the conclusion was that doing this is potentially very difficult to do cross platform, keeping daylight saving changes etc in mind. There is a separate unit that deals with this, IIRC, the wiki mentions it somewhere.. Regards, Reinier -- PascalTZ does that. http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/PascalTZ -- João Marcelo http://blog.caixadepandora.com/ -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Is there a function that returns UTC time in FPC or Lazarus?
On 3/30/2012 10:05, Frank Church wrote: When I get the time via the DateTime function result is adapted for the timezone, making it an hour ahead now? Is there a function that returns the UTC time, either as a UnixTime or TDateTime irregardless of timezone? where are you reading from? the RTC or the OS clock? -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
