When it is 12 midnight in Edinburgh (GMT) it is 6:00 PM the day before here in Dallas (CST) (no daylight savings time). And that is the way it should be. If a child was born at zero seconds, okay 1 second, in Edinburgh a year later in Dallas at 6:00:01 PM on Dec 31st she would be a year old.
IMO, date and time formats should only be used to display dates and times. Aside from formatting issues, as illustrated here time and date formats have 'hidden parameters' such as where (time zone) and when (daylight savings time) associated with them. If you use time and date formats to to calculate time differences you will find several glitches in your calculations. Daylight savings time can add and subtract an hour and even give you a negative time (which can be particularly troublesome). Using the additional 'system' parameter doesn't solve these problems. Use seconds or dateItems to store and calculate your dates and times if you need to do calculations with them. Note, dateItems records the date and time information as local. michael Dar Scott of [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following on 4/21/02 10:00 PM > On Sunday, April 21, 2002, at 08:18 PM, Michael D Mays wrote: > >> That is what the documentation says. 0 seconds is 12 midnight, Jan >> 1, 1970 >> GMT. > > I get 6:00 PM > > (I was sure 0 used to get an error for me, too, I'm not sure what's > up with that.) _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution