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Day light savings issue
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09/11/2007 01:01:35
Walter Meester
HoogkarspelNetherlands
 
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
Database:
MS SQL Server
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01267255
Message ID:
01267845
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19
Hi peter,

>>>>
>>>>A client called about an incorrect calculation of the time (hrs) between two events. I was calculating the time by using ROUND(DateTime2 - DateTime1)/3600,0). However this does not take into account change of time because of daylight savings.
>>>>
>>>>I'm aware that Windows does store the date and time somewhere on which the daylight saving time change happens. It needs to pick it up from the regional settings as the software is running in many different countries, with and without daylight savings.
>>>>
>>>>Is there an easy way of calcutating the number of hours between two events and taking day light savings into account.
>>>
>>>Suppose datetime1 has been stored in summertime and datetime2 12 REAL hours later in wintertime. Are you implying that your calculation shows 12 hours difference?
>>
>>No, I'm implying that the calculation shows 35 hours while it should have been 36 hrs.
>
>Please use my example. If datetime2 is 12 real hours later, what does your calculation show?

Your example will show 11 hours difference, while it should have been saying 12.

Walter,
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