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I had a need to get the equivalent of UTC Date() and after much research ended up with this:
The procedure getUTCDate() returns the number of seconds since 1 Jan 1970 UTC.

I don't actually know the reason for "116444736" in the above. I originally found this in Mistrel's posting ElapsedMilliseconds for C/C++, and on Googling 116444736 found this constant used in many time functions. Maybe someone can explain it's significance. I just know the above works. (My timezone is UTC+10.)

Edit: changed Procedure.i to Procedure.q to handle dates after 2038.

ozzie wrote:The procedure getUTCDate() returns the number of seconds since 1 Jan 1970 UTC.

I don't actually know the reason for "116444736" in the above. I originally found this in Mistrel's posting ElapsedMilliseconds for C/C++, and on Googling 116444736 found this constant used in many time functions. Maybe someone can explain it's significance.

The Win API function SystemTimeToFileTime_() yields a value representing the number of 100-nanosecond intervals since January 1, 1601.
[http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... 85%29.aspx]

11644473600 is the number of seconds between January 1, 1601 and January 1, 1970.

Thanks, LittleJohn. Good to know the meaning of this value.

You're welcome.

BTW, I just saw a small glitch:
It should read Procedure.q, shouldn't it?

Little John wrote: BTW, I just saw a small glitch:
It should read Procedure.q, shouldn't it?

Probably would be better to return the quad value, but primarily I was trying to return a UTC equivalent to Date() and that returns an integer. That will be valid until early 2038, as also mentioned in the PB documentation. I will however, change it to quad in my program, and amend the procedure above.