I want to read Unix time stamps from a file and convert them to a human readable date. However, I want to leave them in UTC. Is there a D function that just returns the d_time string AS-IS without the UTC -> local timezone conversion?

for example:

d_time dtime = rndtol(unixtime * TicksPerSecond);  // convert Unix timestamp
char[] time = toTimeString(dtime); // WRONG! converts UTC to local time zone

I am not sure about the other string conversion functions like YearFromTime, etc. but I suspect they are doing time zone conversions also.

David Finlayson schrieb:
> I want to read Unix time stamps from a file and convert them to a human readable date. However, I want to leave them in UTC. Is there a D function that just returns the d_time string AS-IS without the UTC -> local timezone conversion?
> 
> for example:
> 
> d_time dtime = rndtol(unixtime * TicksPerSecond);  // convert Unix timestamp
> char[] time = toTimeString(dtime); // WRONG! converts UTC to local time zone
> 
> I am not sure about the other string conversion functions like YearFromTime, etc. but I suspect they are doing time zone conversions also.
> 
> 

char[] toUTCString(d_time t) ?

(see in your local dmd\src\phobos\std\date.d that it adds no local offset)

david

Thanks, I'll take another look. I was confused by the documentation and forgot that I can peek under the hood.

David

david Wrote:

> David Finlayson schrieb:
> > I want to read Unix time stamps from a file and convert them to a human readable date. However, I want to leave them in UTC. Is there a D function that just returns the d_time string AS-IS without the UTC -> local timezone conversion?
> > 
> > for example:
> > 
> > d_time dtime = rndtol(unixtime * TicksPerSecond);  // convert Unix timestamp
> > char[] time = toTimeString(dtime); // WRONG! converts UTC to local time zone
> > 
> > I am not sure about the other string conversion functions like YearFromTime, etc. but I suspect they are doing time zone conversions also.
> > 
> > 
> 
> char[] toUTCString(d_time t) ?
> 
> (see in your local dmd\src\phobos\std\date.d that it adds no local offset)
> 
> david