Hey, Monks, Wizards & other wiseguys!

Further research has clarified the question. That is, I tripped over the answer looking for something else. BTAIM, I've discovered that my assumption about the value "-360" was correct. Thanks to all who've given this some thought, and especially to DragonChild for answering.

Regards.


There's some confusing going on regarding UTC in Win32. MSDN explains the "-XXXX" part of the format "yyyymmddhhmmss.ssssss-XXXX" as being +/-hhmm from Zulu time (GMT). Well, that's peachy, BUT...

When I run the Perl code that brings in UTC date,

$date = $foo->LocalDateTime;

(where $foo is appropriately defined--don't tell me, I know, but it works), I don't get back four Xs, only three (specifically, "-360"). Now it happens that I'm in Illinois, using CST, which happens to be Z-6 hours, and six hours just happens to be 360 minutes. So my question is this: is it just a coincidental artifact that my time string reads "yyyymmddhhmmss.ssssss-360" or is the -360 truly the delta from Zulu time, but expressed in minutes? In other words, in California (using PST), would this come back with "-480" (Z-8 hours)?

I need the straight scoop on this 'cuz we're looking at a nation-wide usage here, and I dasn't hose up time settings by making an incorrect assumption about this.

Thanks, all!

Dismas

In reply to Win32 UTC handling by Dismas

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