[FX.php List] [Off] Obtaining daylight vs standard time within FileMaker

Fri Nov 19 03:05:48 MST 2010

I am not sure, but AFAIK, that part is not an application task, but an OS task.

What is the purpose of knowing this?

ggt

2010/11/19 Troy Meyers <tcmeyers at troymeyers.com>:
> This isn't a PHP question. If it were I'd already know the answer.
>
> The email plugin that we use inside of FileMaker was recently "upgraded" and one of the new features is that it no longer automatically supplies the Date: header time. Instead I have to add that item myself. It's easy enough to do, but depending on whether it's Daylight Savings Time or Standard Time, I need to have the time zone atom be either "-0700" or "-0800".
>
> I don't see a function in FileMaker that returns whether it's PST or PDT, but certainly this is something that the OS (MacOS) is aware of. How do I ask it?
>
> How might this determined inside of FileMaker? I really do NOT want to use a date-based calculation that will be obsolete when they change their minds again when the shift will occur.
>
> Ideas? -- Thanks.
>
> -Troy
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