TimeZones

Kelly Burgess kellyb at montana.com
Wed Apr 1 10:46:08 EDT 2009


Hi Mike,

>I have a few Time fields that will change the value from Frontbase 
>when the clocks change, ie, they have gone forward 1 hour, so we are 
>all late.'


Per the "FrontBase V3 DAM.htm" docs:

"It is recommended that applications adopt the use of the symbolic 
$timezonename and do not use $timezoneoffset. Use of an absolute 
offset can cause values returned from TIMESTAMP columns to be out by 
one hour due to a change in daylight savings time."

Kelly



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