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Description

 

Conversion from LOCAL to UTC.

Presuming the current value of cDateTime contains LOCAL date and time, modifies the calling cDateTime object in a way it represents UTC date and time.

 

Syntax

 

<cDateTime>.ToUTC

 

Returns

 

None.

 

Remarks

 

Presumes the cDateTime variable contains local date/time at the time of calling .ToUTC

 

Restrictions

 

See also

 

Examples

 

' Create an object with current date and time

Dim myDateTime As New cDateTime

 

' Set date to LOCAL 30th December of 2000

myDateTime.NewDate(2000, 12, 30)

 

' Set time to LOCAL 15:45

myDateTime.NewTime(15, 45)

 

' Display LOCAL value

MsgBox 0, "myDateTime for your country:" + $CRLF + myDateTime.toString

 

' Alters the state of the myDateTime, converting the previous UTC value to your local value

myDateTime.ToUTC

 

' If you live in other than UTC slice of the world, you will see an altered value :)

MsgBox 0, "myDateTime in UTC:" + $CRLF + myDateTime.toString