Lotus Domino Designer 8 Help - Examples: GMTTime property

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Examples: GMTTime property
1. This script displays the value of the GMTTime property.

Dim dateTime As New NotesDateTime( "04/16/96 05:36 PM" ) Messagebox( dateTime.GMTTime )

If the script runs on a computer set to Eastern Standard Time and daylight-saving time is observed, the dateTime object has a TimeZone property equal to 5, so the GMTTime property returns the string "04/16/96 09:36:00 PM GMT."
If the script runs on a computer set to Bering Standard Time, the dateTime object has a TimeZone property equal to 11, so the GMTTime property returns the string "04/17/96 03:36:00 AM GMT."

2. This script creates a Branch Office Report document using a collection of documents created by users from several different time zones. The PostedDate item on each document indicates when it was posted and in what time zone; the Event item indicates what event is being reported. You want the Body of the Branch Office Report to show the PostedDate of each document in a single time zone, so you use the GMTTime property to convert each date-time to Greenwich Mean Time.

Sub Initialize Dim session As New NotesSession Dim db As NotesDatabase Dim collection As NotesDocumentCollection Dim doc As NotesDocument Dim report As NotesDocument Dim reportBody As NotesRichTextItem Dim item As NotesItem Dim dateTime As NotesDateTime Set db = session.CurrentDatabase Set collection = db.FTSearch("GMTTime",0) Set doc = Collection.GetFirstdocument() Set report = New NotesDocument( db ) Set reportBody = New NotesRichTextItem( report, "Body" ) report.Form = "Branch Office Report" While Not(doc Is Nothing) Set item = doc.GetFirstItem( "PostedDate" ) Set dateTime = item.DateTimeValue Call reportBody.AppendText( dateTime.GMTTime ) Call reportBody.AppendText( " " ) Call reportBody.AppendText( doc.Event( 0 ) ) Call reportBody.AddNewLine( 1 ) Set doc = collection.GetNextDocument(doc) Wend Call report.Save( True, True ) End Sub

For example, if there are three documents in the collection created in Greenwich Mean Time, Pacific Standard Time, and Central Standard Time, respectively, the body of the Report might look like this:

08/06/95 06:12:14 PM GMT London office posts results

08/06/95 06:17:11 PM GMT San Francisco office obtains proposal

08/06/95 08:50:58 PM GMT Chicago office receives sketches

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