>>>>Does anyone know how to get the time in South Africa in VFP?
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>>>Off the top of my head I'd store the SA UTC as a constant, have the app grab the local UTC on startup and have a function to do the math I'd call whenever I needed the SA time.
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>>Sorry I don't understand - I could add 2 hours to UK time but in UK summer (dates vary) it's only 1 hour
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>ok, I googled 'free time zone api" and this is the first one on the list but there seem to be a lot more. Should do the trick
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>http://timezonedb.com/
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>HTH

Thanks a lot I will try it tomorrow