Question

I have this code that works in FreePascal under Windows and need to translate it to Linux but I’m completely lost on the Time Zone Bias value:

function DateTimeToInternetTime(const aDateTime: TDateTime): String;
{$IFDEF WIN32}
var
  LocalTimeZone: TTimeZoneInformation;
{$ENDIF ~WIN32}
begin
{$IFDEF WIN32}
  // eg. Sun, 06 Nov 1994 08:49:37 GMT  RFC 822, updated by 1123
  Result := FormatDateTime('ddd, dd mmm yyyy hh:nn:ss', aDateTime);
  // Get the Local Time Zone Bias and report as GMT +/-Bias
  GetTimeZoneInformation(LocalTimeZone);
  Result := Result + 'GMT ' + IntToStr(LocalTimeZone.Bias div 60);
{$ELSE}
  // !!!! Here I need the above code translated !!!!
  Result := 'Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:00:00 GMT 0000';
{$ENDIF ~WIN32}
end;

Answer 1

This guy has the answer: http://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/msg08467.html

So you’ll want to add the uses clause:

uses unix,sysutils,baseunix

variables to hold the time / timezone:

 var
   timeval: TTimeVal;
   timezone: PTimeZone;

..and get the ‘minutes west’.

{$ELSE}
  Result := FormatDateTime('ddd, dd mmm yyyy hh:nn:ss', aDateTime);
  TimeZone := nil;
  fpGetTimeOfDay (@TimeVal, TimeZone);
  Result := Result + 'GMT ' + IntToStr(timezone^.tz_minuteswest div 60);
{$ENDIF ~WIN32}