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From: Michael Thomsen
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:42

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Hello,

I would like to convert the current PC time into UTC. According to my
documentation the function GetTimeZoneInformation() should do what I
need, but either it doesn't work, or I do not understand how it works:

   TTimeZoneInformation TimeZone;
   GetTimeZoneInformation(&TimeZone);
   TransmitPCtime(Now()+(double)(TimeZone.Bias+TimeZone.DaylightBias)/(60*24));

The above code works for most timezones, both with standard and daylight
saving time. However for certain timezones and standard/daylight saving
combinations (for instance Adelane, Australia) the result is not correct.

Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong?

//michael

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