Re: Value of a date in Numbers
Re: Value of a date in Numbers
- Subject: Re: Value of a date in Numbers
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 09:08:00 -0800
I was afraid of something like that. Here's a simple thought
experiment. Suppose someone on the other side of the globe creates a
file. Sometime later you get a copy of that file. It has a creation
date.
Question: Can you read that date? Accurate to the second?
Answer: Only if the creation date contains information about the
time zone where it was created. Preferably, the creation date is
stored as UTC and knows that.
It does not contain information about the local time zone. It is the
date when the file was created in GMT/UTC. You get time zone
information when the date is read, and the finder automatically
provides this to the user interface and the scripting interface. If
you want to know the local time where and when the file was created,
you would need to know that time zone and do the date calculation.
ES
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