Outputting current time

[bj]

I output the current day/date on our web site home page. We recentlt moved
to an american server that is 10 hours behing us in Australia. Whats the
easiest way to add 10 hours to this date function to display the correct
Australian date.


<cfoutput>#DateFormat(Now(),
"DDDD MMMM D ")# </cfoutput>

[PaulH]

the simplest way is to simply dateAdd("h",10,now()) BUT that doesn't take into account daylight savings, etc. you might have a look at [url]http://www.sustainablegis.com/projects/tz/testTZCFC.cfm[/url].

[Stressed_Simon]

I always use the following function in my Application.cfm

<cfscript>
// allow for time difference
REQUEST.DateTime = DateAdd("h", GetTimeZoneInfo().utcHourOffset, Now());
</cfscript>

Then I reference REQUEST.DateTime instad of Now() throughout the Application.
Gives the difference between the server time and the time in Greenwich London,
so if you add or subtract the relevant number of hours that should sort it!

[PaulH]

i probably spend too much time thinking about timezones and calendars and such
but that's not a good idea, not all tz offsets are in hours. historically
there have been pretty "interesting" tz (for instance Asia/Riyadh87 &
Mideast/Riyadh89 have an offste of GMT+03:07) since these are in the hands of
politicians. so you need to be careful about this sort of thing. further,
you're not taking into account DST which isn't even uniform within some
countries let alone across them.

[bj]

Thanks for the responses guys. Knew someone else would have the same issue.


"PaulH" <paul@sustainablegis.com> wrote in message
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> i probably spend too much time thinking about timezones and calendars and

such

> but that's not a good idea, not all tz offsets are in hours. historically
> there have been pretty "interesting" tz (for instance Asia/Riyadh87 &
> Mideast/Riyadh89 have an offste of GMT+03:07) since these are in the hands

of

> politicians. so you need to be careful about this sort of thing. further,
> you're not taking into account DST which isn't even uniform within some
> countries let alone across them.
>