by Hiu-Hong Hau (1 Submission)
Category: Math/Dates
Compatability: Visual Basic 3.0
Difficulty: Unknown Difficulty
Date Added: Wed 3rd February 2021
Rating: 
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The function InternetTime() calculates the internettime, the new time standard from Swatch. You only have to call the function.
Assumes
Copy and Paste all of these code in one single module.
Code Returns
This function returns a value containing the internettime. If you want to convert it to a small string, you could use the following: Mid(Format(MyTime, "000.0000000"), 1, 3)
API Declarations'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
'*****************************************************************'
'* The function InternetTime() returns the current time *'
'* in beats. The code to determine the timezone has been written *'
'* by Dror Saddan ([email protected]). *'
'* The code to calculate the internettime has been written by *'
'* Swatch. I have ported it to Visual Basic. *'
'* *'
'* Written by Hiu-Hong Hau ([email protected]) *'
'* Date: June 20th 1999 *'
'* Website: http://www.supervisie.nl/qlaunch *'
'* Website: http://www.supervisie.nl/gemini *'
'* *'
'* Take a look at QuickLaunch, a skinnable application launcher, *'
'* completely written in Visual Basic. *'
'*****************************************************************'
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Public Type SYSTEMTIME ' 16 Bytes
wYear As Integer
wMonth As Integer
wDayOfWeek As Integer
wDay As Integer
wHour As Integer
wMinute As Integer
wSecond As Integer
wMilliseconds As Integer
End Type
Public Type TIME_ZONE_INFORMATION
Bias As Long
StandardName(31) As Integer
StandardDate As SYSTEMTIME
StandardBias As Long
DaylightName(31) As Integer
DaylightDate As SYSTEMTIME
DaylightBias As Long
End Type
Public Declare Function GetTimeZoneInformation Lib "kernel32" (lpTimeZoneInformation _
As TIME_ZONE_INFORMATION) As Long
VBcoders
Public Function GetTimeZone(Optional ByRef strTZName As String) As Long
Dim objTimeZone As TIME_ZONE_INFORMATION
Dim lngResult As Long
Dim i As Long
lngResult = GetTimeZoneInformation&(objTimeZone)
Select Case lngResult
Case 0&, 1& 'use standard time
GetTimeZone = -(objTimeZone.Bias + objTimeZone.StandardBias) 'into minutes
For i = 0 To 31
If objTimeZone.StandardName(i) = 0 Then Exit For
strTZName = strTZName & Chr(objTimeZone.StandardName(i))
Next
Case 2& 'use daylight savings time
GetTimeZone = -(objTimeZone.Bias + objTimeZone.DaylightBias) 'into minutes
For i = 0 To 31
If objTimeZone.DaylightName(i) = 0 Then Exit For
strTZName = strTZName & Chr(objTimeZone.DaylightName(i))
Next
End Select
End Function
Public Function InternetTime()
Dim tmpH
Dim tmpS
Dim tmpM
Dim itime
Dim tmpZ
Dim testtemp As String
tmpH = Hour(Time)
tmpM = Minute(Time)
tmpS = Second(Time)
tmpZ = GetTimeZone
itime = ((tmpH * 3600 + ((tmpM - tmpZ + 60) * 60) + tmpS) * 1000 / 86400)
If itime > 1000 Then
itime = itime - 1000
ElseIf itime < 0 Then
itime = itime + 1000
End If
InternetTime = itime
End Function
