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Is there possibility to add diffrent timezones? How can this be defined for instance for US or great Britain?
What would you do with that?
I want to list free diffrent times in my desktop info something like:
US-East: <time>
GreatBritain: <time>
India-Delhi: <time>
what lines should i add to my config to get such result?
That can't be done right now. A simple offset option in the DATETIME item would probably do the job?
@glenn Hey Glenn, hope you're doing well. I want to relight this old topic, as it is a great feature to list multiple DATETIME for international companies. The daylight savings shifts are the troublemakers. I cannot push the new INI files 4 times a year. I need to (luckily) account only for NL-CET and US-Eastern time as the other sites do not use DST. So could this be achieved in a nested IF statement? Any pointers you can give? NL changes on March 30 (+1) and back on Oct 26 (-1) and US changes on March 9 and Nov 2 resp.
It seems that Desktop Info’s `DATETIME` offset field specifically requires a numeric constant and doesn't accept variables directly in the `offset:` field. Any smart people out there with a resolution/workaround?
You're showing date/time for various locations and want to account for daylight savings at those locations. Nothing comes to mind. I'll look into implementing daylight savings. Meanwhile have you considered 3rd party web api time queries?@glenn Hey Glenn, hope you're doing well. I want to relight this old topic, as it is a great feature to list multiple DATETIME for international companies. The daylight savings shifts are the troublemakers. I cannot push the new INI files 4 times a year. I need to (luckily) account only for NL-CET and US-Eastern time as the other sites do not use DST. So could this be achieved in a nested IF statement? Any pointers you can give? NL changes on March 30 (+1) and back on Oct 26 (-1) and US changes on March 9 and Nov 2 resp.
I just added it. You'll have it in the next release.It seems that Desktop Info’s `DATETIME` offset field specifically requires a numeric constant and doesn't accept variables directly in the `offset:` field. Any smart people out there with a resolution/workaround?
Well I spent today on daylight savings and what seems really simple turns out to be rather complicated. Knowing when to apply summer time and winter time is the thing. Windows has a registry key at HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones\ listing every time zone it knows about and it's relevant information. Some time zones contain a start date for standard time and start date for daylight saving time.... and some don't. These time zones that do not contain start dates can't account for daylight savings and so the calculations will be wrong about half the time.
I tried to discover if there is a default for those with no dates but haven't found anything yet. There's no worldwide standard.
Edit: I might have been looking at the wrong entries....
You could use HTTPGET with the API from this site: https://worldtimeapi.org/timezones and extract the time from the JSON field "datetime". I'm reasonably sure it's a fixed length string, so you can use the sub function to extract the time.
