On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 15:09 +1300, anthony lineham wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to convert the time information in messages so they match the timezone offset of a remote device. Initially I was using time_zone(). This seemed to work ok until I tried and offset of greater than 12hours, which failed. It occurred to me that this utility is intended convert messages initially with GMT time to a GMT +/- offset time hence only +/-12 is required.
What I want to be able to do is make a coversion relative to local time, so I need to be able to handle an offset of up 23 hours. I'm trying to use timezone(), which is supposed to take an offset value in seconds. However I can't work out the syntax. For a 2 hour offset I've tried: timezone(7200) timezone("7200") timezone("+7200") timezone(+7200)
For each of these I get config parsing errors.
The format of the time_zone argument is [+/-]HH:MM, where did you read about seconds? I'd like to fix it if you found this in the documentation. -- Bazsi