Data TimeZone in page footer

Question

Hi All,
I have to display the Data TimeZone in my page footer. When I use this special field, it displays as Eastern Time Zone, Eastern Day Time....
But I want to display as (EDT,+1.00) format...How can this be achieved?
Please help me with this..
Thanks in advance
Naresh

Answer 1

By creating your own formula and hardcode the translation. Here's an example:
Global StringVar TimeZoneName;
Global NumberVar TimeZoneOffset;
Global StringVar Signature;
//First hardcode the short name for known timezones.
//Use the Select switch if you wish to define many timezones.
If (Split(DataTimeZone, "," ))[3] = "W. Europe Daylight Time"   Then
  TImeZoneName:="WEDT"
Else
  TimeZoneName:="Undefined Timezone";
//So how much time does one need to add or substract?
TimeZoneOffSet:=ToNumber(Split(DataTimeZone, "," )[2]) / 60;
//The negative sign in a number like -2.5 is automatically created
//but a positive sign (+) isn't. So we hardcode that one as well.
If TimeZoneOffSet >= 0 Then
  Signature:="+"
Else
  Signature:= "";
//So we have the new name of the timezone, merged with hours and it's sign.
"(" & TimeZoneName & ", " & Signature & ToText(TimeZoneOffset, 2, "#.##", ".") & ")";