[fpc-devel] NowUTC in the RTL

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Fri Dec 9 15:06:30 CET 2011


In our previous episode, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho said:
> > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be> wrote:
> >> Afaik the original point was that some people were interested in some kind
> >> of timestamp that does not jump around (except possibly when overflowing). I
> >> don't think anyone particularly needed "the time in UTC".
> 
> Use case example: You need to store the current time in UTC in a database.

Nine times out of ten you solve that server side, not client side.



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