Date/Time Edit and Convert to GMT

[Richard Kreiss]

Do you want an option to handle the time zone?

Richard
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> On Nov 6, 2020, at 2:44 AM, Richard Kreiss <rkreiss at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> It is Kate here and I can think of a way to solve your me issue. I will contact you later with a possible solution. 
> 
> Richard
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>> On Nov 6, 2020, at 1:16 AM, Ken Cole via Filepro-list <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
>> 
>> thanks Mark,
>> 
>> I was hoping maybe and internal function to at least format a date in the
>> required format and pass it @td. I agree I will most likely have to do some
>> math on the current date and time and calc GMT from the current TZ in our
>> environment.  We have users in several different time zones and the GMT is
>> of course relevant to the users TZ so all dates are relative.
>> 
>> Ken
>> 
>>> On Fri, 6 Nov 2020 at 17:08, Fairlight via Filepro-list <
>>> filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I don't think fP has any concept of TZs at all, so it's likely not
>>> possible to do the conversion.
>>> 
>>> The edit part...a lot of that would be calculations.  fP doesn't have a
>>> concept of the calendar interanally, so unless you already have a
>>> correlated date and day, that's not happening internally anytime soon.
>>> 
>>> m->
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 04:30:01PM +1100, Ken Cole via Filepro-list thus
>>> spoke:
>>>> G'day all you filePro groupies,
>>>> 
>>>> I hope this finds everyone safe and well.
>>>> 
>>>> Has anyone ever created an edit  for a date/time something like this:
>>> Fri,
>>>> 06 Nov 2020 05:11:00 GMT
>>>> 
>>>> I checked the filePro manual online for all the system edits and apart
>>> from
>>>> "time" to give me the time component I did not find anything to give me
>>> the
>>>> date component in that format.
>>>> 
>>>> And additionally, I need an edit or function to convert current date/time
>>>> to GMT in the above format?
>>>> 
>>>> Once again just trying to not have to reinvent the wheel.
>>>> 
>>>> thanks.
>>>> 
>>>> Ken
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