Time/Date Format Problem

[Curtis]

I am trying to convert a string to datetime format and I get an invalid
Date/Time format error. The code I am trying to use is:

msgtime = CDate("Sat, Aug 27 2005 20:00:00 EDT")

I know I can use this format to generete a valid date but how do I correctly
covert time zones?

msgtime = CDate("Sat, Aug 27 2005 20:00:00 GMT")

Any help would be greatly appercaited.

Thanks,
Curtis

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Re: Time/Date Format Problem

Curtis,

If you use a datestring, than it has to be in the culture of the computer or
you have to set the culture (something I will not advice you except if you
directly set it back).

Therefore every datetime string is in almost every country in the world
different.

Is this a valid datetime string in your culture?

You know that the most nice method to get a date is using the ISO date with
new date

dim dtm as datetime = new date(2005,9,1,1 2,18,00)

I hope this helps,

Cor

[Curtis]

Re: Time/Date Format Problem

Cor,

Thanks for the reply, so if I understand you correctly their is no way that
VB will convert times from different time zones ? My application has to
process time zones that are in the United States so does that mean I have to
process the time difference manually?

Thanks,
Curtis
"Cor Ligthert [MVP]" <notmyfirstname @planet.nl> wrote in message
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> Curtis,
>
> If you use a datestring, than it has to be in the culture of the computer
> or you have to set the culture (something I will not advice you except if
> you directly set it back).
>
> Therefore every datetime string is in almost every country in the world
> different.
>
> Is this a valid datetime string in your culture?
>
> You know that the most nice method to get a date is using the ISO date
> with new date
>
> dim dtm as datetime = new date(2005,9,1,1 2,18,00)
>
> I hope this helps,
>
> Cor
>[/color]

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Re: Time/Date Format Problem

Curtis,

Normally I have readed that the best approaches for this is to use Zulu time
(z).

That is another word for UTC which is the same as GMT time.

There is a lot written about that on internet when you search for those
three keywords.

For getting the zulu time is this keyword in the DateTime
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...tcnowtopic.asp

The same is in the ToString when you see in this page for the z.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...classtopic.asp

I hope this helps,

Cor