[fpc-pascal] getting UTC time

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Bernd wrote:
> Is there an easy (or elegant) cross platform way of getting the
> current time in UTC that works on all platforms? I did some google
> search and there it seems some people have made themselves some more
> or less complicated functions for this purpose but they all use either
> unix and baseunix or they use windows.
> 
> There must be a simple function in the RTL to get the current time (in
> UTC) that works on all platforms, I am sure I must be missing
> something, such a function surely exists in a modern runtime library
> in the year 2011, doesn't it?

I think the problem is knowing whether the clock on the local computer 
has been set to UTC, or to a local timezone. Also- in the general case- 
knowing that it's not been set to "correct" for daylight saving at the 
hardware level.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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