Re: Newbie Q: How to program in UTC (time/calendar) ?

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@nospam.acm.org>]

reinkor wrote:
>    Time1 := Value("1970-01-01 00:00:00");
>    Time2 := Ada.Calendar.Time_Of(1970,1,1,0.0);
> 
>    Put("Time1: ");Put(Image(Time1));New_Line;
>    Put("Time2: ");Put(Image(Time2));New_Line;
> 
>    Put("UTC_Time_Offset: ");Put(Integer(UTC_Time_Offset),8);
> 
> This gives the following output on my computer:
> 
> Time1: 1970-01-01 00:00:00
> Time2: 1969-12-31 23:00:00
> UTC_Time_Offset:      120
> 
> The first line I now understand reflects that both "Value"
> and "Image" has parameter Time_Zone = 0 (UTC). I.e. "Time1"
> can be understood to have value 1970-01-01 00:00:00 (UTC).
> "But "Time2" is 1970-01-01 00:00:00 *minus* one hour (only), and
> UTC_Time_Offset = 120 (2 hours).

I suspect you've recently gone on 
daylight-savings/summer/whatever-it's-called-where-you-are time, which is UTC 
+02:00 (120 mins), but on 1970 Jan 01 you were on regular time, which is UTC +01:00.

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