get local time zone offset

[zola_the_gorgon]

Dear all,

I am using LV 2010 on Windows 7 and Windows XP.

My question: is there a reliable way of finding out the offset of the local time from UTC, that will work correctly all the time, taking daylight savings into account?

I've read various threads on the subject, but I'm none the wiser.

Thanks!

Zola

[JÞB]

It is not intuitive.  Gotta love the Timing palatte! But by casting into a date time record IS DST becomes one element of the record clusters pretty easy from there

[Peter_S]

This code is not correct if UTC & Local Time is on different days & month. You have to consider also day of month & month.

[Peter_S]

better:

[paul_cardinale]

Actually, in order to handle DST, I think you need something like this.

[Scott_Richardson]

Helpful, thanks!