[fpc-pascal] function now shows bad date (-2 hours)
Marco van de Voort
marcov at stack.nl
Sun Apr 6 16:16:00 CEST 2008
> I have this simple demo (in ubuntu, using fpc 2.2.0, locale is sk_SK.utf8):
>
> program test;
> uses SysUtils;
> begin
> writeln(DateTimeToStr(now));
> end.
>
> When I compile it and run it it print 13:44:
>
> $ ./test
> 6-4-08 13:44:32
>
> But the actual date is 15:44:
>
> $ date
> Ne apr 6 15:44:35 CEST 2008
>
> What's wrong?
I assume that the problem is that your main clock is set to GMT, so then you
have 1 hour timezone + 1 hour summer time difference.
IOW, you need to correct that result for time differences.
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