[fpc-devel] NowUTC in FPC

Denis Kozlov dezlov at gmail.com
Wed Jul 20 16:26:56 CEST 2016


On 20 July 2016 at 14:47, Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl> wrote:

> In our previous episode, Denis Kozlov said:
> > I'm not sure why you say there is no guarantee, because in example of
> > Windows implementation GetSystemTime API is explicitly expressed in UTC
> > according to MSDN.
>
> I was looking at the Unix implementation.
>

Unix implementation also returns UTC time, i.e. fpgettimeofday returns
seconds since Epoch, which gets converted to TDateTime.

Don't mind another poorly chosen name "EpochToLocal", which in reality is
more like "UnixToDateTime".

Is there an issue I'm just not seeing?

Denis
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