Class TimeZone : convertToUTC Method

Date convertToUTC( Integer year, Integer month, Integer day, Integer hour, Integer minute, [ Integer second ] )

Summary

Converts given 'localised' date parameters to a UTC date object

Remarks

Converts from localised date information as declared on object construction of via the set method to a UTC date object.

Parameters

Parameter	Description
Integer year	Specify a 4 digit year value
Integer month	Specify a month indexed from 1. January = 1, December = 12
Integer day	Specify a day of the month.
Integer hour	Specify an hour value
Integer minute	Specify a minutes value
Integer second [optional]	Specify an optional seconds value (if not specified, 0 is assumed)

Returns

Returns a standard Date object

Examples

var date = new String( "19/09/2007" );
var arrDate = date.split( "/" );

var time = new String( "21:00" );
var arrTime = time.split( ":" );


var tz = new TimeZone( "BST" );
newDate = tz.convertToUTC( arrDate[ 2 ], arrDate[ 1 ], arrDate[ 0 ], arrTime[ 0 ], arrTime[ 1 ] );
debugOut( "Converted " + tz.name + " (" + tz.code + ") date: " + date + " " + time + " to GMT " + newDate.toUTCString() );

Class TimeZone : convertToUTC Method

Summary

Remarks

Parameters

Returns

Examples

See Also