Hi Friends,

My mail goal is to get the UTC time for local zone. I am facing problems in
handling internation time zones in VBScript for Item.Start and Item.End.
Could any one tell me in brief/code to handle different international time
zones. I thought of the below solution:

1. Get the UTC time
2. Get the time difference with local zone
3. Add it to UTC.

Is there any ways to do this in VBScript?

Thanks in Advance,
Megha

You'd need to use WSH (Windows Scripting) to read the registry to get those
settings.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007.
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options.
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"masani paresh" wrote in message
...
Hi Friends,

My mail goal is to get the UTC time for local zone. I am facing problems
in
handling internation time zones in VBScript for Item.Start and Item.End.
Could any one tell me in brief/code to handle different international time
zones. I thought of the below solution:

1. Get the UTC time
2. Get the time difference with local zone
3. Add it to UTC.

Is there any ways to do this in VBScript?

Thanks in Advance,
Megha

We can do it in VB like below:

Dim testTime As DateTime = DateTime.Now
Debug.WriteLine(testTime.ToString)
Debug.WriteLine(testTime.ToUniversalTime.ToString)

Is there any function in VBScript that can convert local time to UTC?

Thanks,
Paresh

"Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

You'd need to use WSH (Windows Scripting) to read the registry to get those
settings.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007.
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options.
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"masani paresh" wrote in message
...
Hi Friends,

My mail goal is to get the UTC time for local zone. I am facing problems
in
handling internation time zones in VBScript for Item.Start and Item.End.
Could any one tell me in brief/code to handle different international time
zones. I thought of the below solution:

1. Get the UTC time
2. Get the time difference with local zone
3. Add it to UTC.

Is there any ways to do this in VBScript?

Thanks in Advance,
Megha

That's using VB.NET.

There are no equivalents in VBScript or Windows scripting for
ToUniveralTime().

You'd have to write your own function for that. Or you could search on the
Web to see if anything like that has been done using VBScript or possibly
VBA or VB6. If you found code in VB6 or VBA you'd need to translate it into
VBScript code.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007.
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options.
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"masani paresh" wrote in message
...
We can do it in VB like below:

Dim testTime As DateTime = DateTime.Now
Debug.WriteLine(testTime.ToString)
Debug.WriteLine(testTime.ToUniversalTime.ToString)

Is there any function in VBScript that can convert local time to UTC?

Thanks,
Paresh

Thanks Ken, I have done it in following way.

sTime = Format(Item.Start,"yyyy-mm-dd" & "T" & "hh:mm:ss" & "+" & timeOffset)
eTime = Format(Item.End,"yyyy-mm-dd" & "T" & "hh:mm:ss" & "+" & timeOffset)

I have hard coded time offsets for different time zone that is required. I
am getting local site and corresponding time zone offset and adding it to
current time to get the UTC.

Could you see any improvement that i can make here.

Thanks,
Paresh

"Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

That's using VB.NET.

There are no equivalents in VBScript or Windows scripting for
ToUniveralTime().

You'd have to write your own function for that. Or you could search on the
Web to see if anything like that has been done using VBScript or possibly
VBA or VB6. If you found code in VB6 or VBA you'd need to translate it into
VBScript code.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007.
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options.
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"masani paresh" wrote in message
...
We can do it in VB like below:

Dim testTime As DateTime = DateTime.Now
Debug.WriteLine(testTime.ToString)
Debug.WriteLine(testTime.ToUniversalTime.ToString)

Is there any function in VBScript that can convert local time to UTC?

Thanks,
Paresh

Keep in mind that the offsets will be different depending on whether
Daylight Savings Time (DST) is observed and whether the given date falls
with the DST.
Keep in mind that on the MAPI level, these propertiss are already stored in
UTC, so you can simply access teh raw MAPI properties using Extended MAPI,
CDO 1.21, or Redemption.
plug Redemption (url below) exposes time zones through the
RDOSession.Timeszones collection -
http://www.dimastr.com/redemption/rdo/rdotimezones.htm /plug

--
Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
http://www.dimastr.com/
OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO
and MAPI Developer Tool
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"masani paresh" wrote in message
...
Thanks Ken, I have done it in following way.

sTime = Format(Item.Start,"yyyy-mm-dd" & "T" & "hh:mm:ss" & "+" &
timeOffset)
eTime = Format(Item.End,"yyyy-mm-dd" & "T" & "hh:mm:ss" & "+" &
timeOffset)

I have hard coded time offsets for different time zone that is required. I
am getting local site and corresponding time zone offset and adding it to
current time to get the UTC.

Could you see any improvement that i can make here.

Thanks,
Paresh

"Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

That's using VB.NET.

There are no equivalents in VBScript or Windows scripting for
ToUniveralTime().

You'd have to write your own function for that. Or you could search on
the
Web to see if anything like that has been done using VBScript or possibly
VBA or VB6. If you found code in VB6 or VBA you'd need to translate it
into
VBScript code.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007.
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options.
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"masani paresh" wrote in message
...
We can do it in VB like below:

Dim testTime As DateTime = DateTime.Now
Debug.WriteLine(testTime.ToString)
Debug.WriteLine(testTime.ToUniversalTime.ToString)

Is there any function in VBScript that can convert local time to UTC?

Thanks,
Paresh

I'd agree with Dmitry that you aren't handling DST dates and hard coding
offsets is not a good way to go.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007.
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options.
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"masani paresh" wrote in message
...
Thanks Ken, I have done it in following way.

sTime = Format(Item.Start,"yyyy-mm-dd" & "T" & "hh:mm:ss" & "+" &
timeOffset)
eTime = Format(Item.End,"yyyy-mm-dd" & "T" & "hh:mm:ss" & "+" &
timeOffset)

I have hard coded time offsets for different time zone that is required. I
am getting local site and corresponding time zone offset and adding it to
current time to get the UTC.

Could you see any improvement that i can make here.

Thanks,
Paresh

Hi Ken,
I have written following steps to get the UTC value of current time by
reading reg keys. But when it executes the set oShell =
CreateObject("WScript.Shell") statement, it show the dialog box for
confirming some installation. I have to click yes then it will proceed and
works fine. Could you tell me how to make this statement to work silently.

startTime = Item.Start
endTime = Item.End
set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
atb = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\" &_
"Control\TimeZoneInformation\ActiveTimeBias"
offsetMin = oShell.RegRead(atb)
startTime = dateadd("n", offsetMin, startTime)
endTime = dateadd("n", offsetMin, endTime)

startTime = Format(startTime,"yyyy-mm-dd" & "T" & "hh:mm:ss" & "Z")
endTime = Format(endTime,"yyyy-mm-dd" & "T" & "hh:mm:ss" & "Z")
MsgBox startTime & vbcrlf & endTime

Thanks,
Paresh

"Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

You'd need to use WSH (Windows Scripting) to read the registry to get those
settings.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007.
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options.
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"masani paresh" wrote in message
...
Hi Friends,

My mail goal is to get the UTC time for local zone. I am facing problems
in
handling internation time zones in VBScript for Item.Start and Item.End.
Could any one tell me in brief/code to handle different international time
zones. I thought of the below solution:

1. Get the UTC time
2. Get the time difference with local zone
3. Add it to UTC.

Is there any ways to do this in VBScript?

Thanks in Advance,
Megha

It shouldn't if WSH is installed already. I never get that prompt when
instantiating a WSH object.

What happens if you try that line from a simple VBS file you can create
using Notepad? Do you always get the same prompt:

Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007.
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options.
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"masani paresh" wrote in message
...
Hi Ken,
I have written following steps to get the UTC value of current time by
reading reg keys. But when it executes the set oShell =
CreateObject("WScript.Shell") statement, it show the dialog box for
confirming some installation. I have to click yes then it will proceed and
works fine. Could you tell me how to make this statement to work silently.

startTime = Item.Start
endTime = Item.End
set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
atb = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\" &_
"Control\TimeZoneInformation\ActiveTimeBias"
offsetMin = oShell.RegRead(atb)
startTime = dateadd("n", offsetMin, startTime)
endTime = dateadd("n", offsetMin, endTime)

startTime = Format(startTime,"yyyy-mm-dd" & "T" & "hh:mm:ss" & "Z")
endTime = Format(endTime,"yyyy-mm-dd" & "T" & "hh:mm:ss" & "Z")
MsgBox startTime & vbcrlf & endTime

Thanks,
Paresh

Do you always get the same prompt:
Not always. I got it first time when I ran the customized outlook form. And
I also got it when I ran it after restarting my machine.

Thanks,
Paresh

"Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

It shouldn't if WSH is installed already. I never get that prompt when
instantiating a WSH object.

What happens if you try that line from a simple VBS file you can create
using Notepad? Do you always get the same prompt:

Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007.
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options.
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"masani paresh" wrote in message
...
Hi Ken,
I have written following steps to get the UTC value of current time by
reading reg keys. But when it executes the set oShell =
CreateObject("WScript.Shell") statement, it show the dialog box for
confirming some installation. I have to click yes then it will proceed and
works fine. Could you tell me how to make this statement to work silently.

startTime = Item.Start
endTime = Item.End
set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
atb = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\" &_
"Control\TimeZoneInformation\ActiveTimeBias"
offsetMin = oShell.RegRead(atb)
startTime = dateadd("n", offsetMin, startTime)
endTime = dateadd("n", offsetMin, endTime)

startTime = Format(startTime,"yyyy-mm-dd" & "T" & "hh:mm:ss" & "Z")
endTime = Format(endTime,"yyyy-mm-dd" & "T" & "hh:mm:ss" & "Z")
MsgBox startTime & vbcrlf & endTime

Thanks,
Paresh

Do you always get the same prompt: