>>I have defined my Windows setup to be EST time zone. From Visual FoxPro, when I use GetLocalTime(), it returns an offset of 4 based on the Greenwhich time. I would like to use GetLocalTime(), as suggested by Paul, because I won't have an hour conversion to do. But, my results are giving me the same result as GetSystemTime().
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>Michel,
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>I've played around with GetLocalTime() and, as you have, I've gotten the same result as GetSystemTime(). In both instances, however, the information was correct. The only thing that I can think of might be in the declaration of the API call. I used:
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>DECLARE INTEGER GetLocalTime IN Win32API;
> STRING @cTimeStruct
>cTimeStruct = SPACE(16)
>= GetLocalTime(@cTimeStruct)
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>I then evaluated each two byte segment of the string and coverted it to numeric. BTW, Eastern time is 5 hours behind GMT.
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>George

It's 4, during the daylight savings.

Vlad