How to get system's Daylight setting?

I think you need to use the TTimeZoneInformation & getTimeZoneInformation

GL
Mike

yeah something like this should work:

function isDayLightSavings:boolean;
var
 tz : TTimeZoneInformation;
begin
 result := getTimeZoneInformation(tz) = TIME_ZONE_ID_DAYLIGHT;
end;


GL
Mike

ysimon,

In addition to the previous comments, the following code will extract the local time, UTC, the offset bias and a flag to indicate whether daylight saving is in operation:

type TTimeInfo = record
  LocalTime: TDateTime;
  UTC       : TDateTime;
  TZBias    : TDateTime;
  IsDayLight: Boolean;
  end;

function GetTimeInfo: TTimeInfo;
var
  rTZ : TTimeZoneInformation;
begin
//  Get Timezone Info...
  case GetTimeZoneInformation(rTZ) of
    TIME_ZONE_ID_UNKNOWN  : begin
//                          Don't know the SystemTime value. Assume PC is using UTC at the moment.
                            Result.TZBias := 0;
                            Result.IsDayLight := False;
                            end;
    TIME_ZONE_ID_STANDARD : begin
//                          PC is using "standard" time
                            Result.TZBias := (rTZ.StandardBias / 1440);
                            Result.IsDayLight := False;
                            end;
    TIME_ZONE_ID_DAYLIGHT : begin
//                          PC is using "daylight" time
                            Result.TZBias := (rTZ.DaylightBias / 1440);
                            Result.IsDayLight := True;
                            end;
    TIME_ZONE_ID_INVALID :  begin
                            Result.TZBias := 0;
                            Result.IsDayLight := False;
                            end;
    else begin
      Result.TZBias := 0;
      Result.IsDayLight := False;
      end;
    end;

  with Result do begin
    LocalTime := Now;
    UTC       := LocalTime + TZBias;
    end;
end;

To use it, the following code shows you what you can do (you'll need 3 TEdit and 1 TLabel components on a form):
var
  lInfo: TTimeInfo;
begin
  lInfo:= GetTimeInfo;
  Edit1.Text := FormatDateTime('hh:nn:ss, dd/mm/yyyy', lInfo.LocalTime);
  Edit2.Text := FormatDateTime('hh:nn:ss, dd/mm/yyyy', lInfo.UTC);
  Edit3.Text := FormatDateTime('hh:nn:ss', lInfo.TZBias);
  if (lInfo.TZBias < 0) then
    Edit3.Text := '+' + Edit3.Text
  else
    Edit3.Text := '-' + Edit3.Text;

  if lInfo.IsDayLight then
    Label4.Caption := 'In Daylight time now'
  else
    Label4.Caption := 'Using Standard time now'
end;

Wow !

Would you mind adding that to the Delphi section of HowToDoThings.com ?  I love it !


Pete

Thanks edey and malsoft, you solved my problem.
BTW I'd like know that if there is a table to record all time difference between local standard time and GMT.
Maybe it doesn't exist.
ysimon

Thanks edey and malsoft, you solved my problem.
BTW I'd like know that if there is a table to record all time difference between local standard time and GMT.
Maybe it doesn't exist.
ysimon

ysimon,

On my Win98SE machine, there's a whole slew of timezone information in the registry at:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Time Zones

and the current setting is at:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation

Unfortunately, the information you need to get at is held in a TZI binary field - the format of which I'm not 100% sure about (it may be a copy of the structure, but I would bet on that!)

Happy coding!

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