>>>I need to convert a GMT DateTime value to the appropriate local time value.
>>>Does anybody know of any functions that obtain the GMT offset?
>>>
>>>TIA
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>>If you know your time-zone offset (for instance, "+2"), just add that many hours to the GMT time. For DateTime values, you have to add seconds, so you have to multiply the hours by 3600 (seconds per hour).
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>>HTH, Hilmar.
>
>So true...but how do I get the time-zone offset?
>Unless intoxicated, I usually know where I am, but I dont know where in the world the software is running :-))

Oh, sorry. It wasn't clear, to me at least, what exactly you were missing.

You can ask for user input, of course, but I don't think you want that.

You can get the timezone, as specified in the Control Panel, with the Windows API, but I don't remember any further details. This was discussed a few weeks ago, here on the UT.

Hilmar.