Converting a Timestamp to UTC and daylight savings issues
When we need to get a UTC timestamp (for example creating a calendar .ics file) we would use the following code:
vars
utcPickupTime, pickupTime : TimeStamp;
begin
pickupTime.setDate("05/11/2018".Date);
pickupTime.setTime("10:30".Time);
utcPickupTime := pickupTime.localToUTCTimeUsingBias(app.currentUTCBias(PresentationClient));
The problem is app.currentUTCBias is working for the current point in time. Not working when the pickup time actually is.
In my investigation into this I found this is currently an NFS in Parsys: #55992, #56076
To get around this we are going to need to add an external call to windows which we shouldn't need to do if it was native in Jade.
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HistoricalComments
FileVision UK Ltd 12/06/2018 2:36:50 AM
Also #61379
Software Medical Infomatics Limited 11/06/2018 11:29:43 AM
Most definitely!
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Guest
Here is how you could write the above code using JadeTimeZone to get the appropriate offsets for when the pickup time is:
example_jadeTimeZoneCode();
vars
utcPickupTime, pickupTime : TimeStamp;
presClientTimeZone: JadeTimeZone;
begin
pickupTime.setDate("5/11/2018".Date);
pickupTime.setTime("10:30".Time);
presClientTimeZone := JadeTimeZone@createTimeZoneByLocationWindows(PresentationClient);
utcPickupTime := presClientTimeZone.convertTimeToUtc(pickupTime);
end;
JADE Timezones demo is available here.