Time on PDA UTC

[P E G]

I've one more time followed the right procedure to try to find an answer to my question, Looking at forum, posting in forum, then mail support and .... except some exchanges with "tst" (thank's very much) no answer !!

My question seems very simple it's to get this in Labview code:
- How to get the real GMT NB OF SECONDS SINCE 01:01/1904 00:00:00 on my PDA (PALM) ?
- Or for example how can i know the current timzone Nb second difference with GMT on a my PDA ?

Please help for a trick !

[tst]

I see this is still troubling you, so I'll make a suggestion.
I don't have the means at the moment to check this, but if the the number of seconds output by the Get Date\Time VI is timezone dependant, I suggest you let your user determine the time zone and save this in a config file.

[P E G]

Your right ... i should do that ...

But yu know my palm application is a bit complex with many existing parameters in a recorded saved file, for Data aquisition with bluetooth peripherals, for recording parameters, for displaying parameters, for an exchange protocol, for some learning behaviour with (simple) user interface (for electrician, i mean they are not computer scientist ... some of them could even don't know anything about GMT time, or won't think about configuring it according to the real Palm configuration !). In the full software solution, we've got also information comming from a linux box with specific hardware that make recording session also (for electricity surveying), and at the end many log files are joined for a spécific Pc client software and for specific server processing to make data analysis ...

That's why i'd prefer this kind of information not to be depending on a user action.

If you wan't to have a look to our works go on www.watteco.com.

But again thank you very much for you interest and solution proposition, maybe i'll finally do what you suggect !

[P E G]

Hi all,

Mr Tillet from French National support answered me and explained me that I should make my own system call on PDA, then I read a bit about this subject and discovered that I could make my stub dll with LabWindows CVI (at the moment I’ve no other C dev platform on my PC), and finally I went on palm reference API to find the way to get the TimeZone difference !

So it’s Ok my problem is solved,

Thanks for all.