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- Subject: Re: time zone?
- From: David Burgess <dburgess@...>
- Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 00:20:13 +1000
Dont rely on "%z" giving a number (or anything else) in Win32.
This only returns a value if you have performed os.setlocale() and
on my box both %z and %Z return a string like
"Eastern Standard Time"
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 10:22:48 -0300, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
<lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> > Is there a way to access time zone information from Lua? Perhaps the
> > time zone name and its UTC offset?
>
> =os.date"%z"
> -0300
> =os.date"%Z"
> BRT
>
> but %z is a GNU extension.
> --lhf
>
