Android Question Getting rid of the timezone...

[wimpie3]

B4A's timezones are driving me crazy.

When I set the value of "mydate" to "0", I thought this would represent 1 JAN 1970, 00:00.

However, when I do a DateTime.GetHour(mydate), it seems DateTime takes into calculation the current timezone.

How can I use GetDayOfWeek, GetMonth, GetYear, GetHour and GetMinute without a timezone being added/subtracted? Do I really have to subtract the timezone myself every time? Or can I set a parameter somewhere to reset the timezone to 0 temporarily?

 

[NJDude]

Read THIS thread.

 

[wimpie3]

That thread does not help me. All it says is "Use DateUtils and everything will be fine." But dateutils does not have a GetDayOfWeek, GetMonth, GetYear, GetHour and GetMinute.

 

[Erel]

You can set the time zone to 0 with DateTime.SetTimeZone(0). It will work.

However this is not the best solution. What are you trying to implement?

 

[wimpie3]

Can you tell me why this is not the best solution? Any side effects? I don't need timezones at all in my application.

 

[Erel]

It is hard to say without understanding what you are trying to implement. However it is usually a bad idea to work in the "ticks level".