[AccessD] Comparing times in different time zones

Darryl Collins darryl at whittleconsulting.com.au
Mon Oct 24 22:27:19 CDT 2011


Bloody hell Ken,

That is going to be a struggle to get right given all the Local time zones you are going to need to deal with. Just in Oz alone it is a mess with some states on Daylight saving time and other states ignore it.  This leads to stupid situations where you will have two cities in the same zone being 1 hour apart.

I am sure Australia doesn't have a monopoly on this sort of weirdness.

I deal a lot with Asia and the US and Africa these days so I use this website <<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/>> to keep track of different times, maybe it can help you out?

I guess it depends on where you are grabbing the offset from and if it is automatically updated or not?


-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Kenneth W Van Huss
Sent: Tuesday, 25 October 2011 2:13 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: [AccessD] Comparing times in different time zones

I have an unmet challenge relating to comparing times in different time
zones.  User on the other side of the world, literally enters time of an
event.  When the user saves the record in the database that time is
captured, though the time is the server time, located in US central time
zone.  Using UTC offset I have "normalized" the times to UTC to compare
against one another to ensure the record was entered within a certain amount
of time.  The challenge I see down the road is Day Light Savings time and
the impact that will have on the offset.  Anyone experience this before?

 

Thanks!

Ken

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