Retrieve System Time Zone Offset?

Hi, I'm doing some GPS emulation and need to retrieve the system Time Zone Offset in (Hour and Minute). For example if Mountain time zone offset hour = -7 and Minute = 00. Is this information possible to get in Labview?
Thanks.

Hello QRP,
Yes, it can be done, but this way is not very elegant. It will get the GMT offset that your PC has as its current setting.
Use Format Date/TIme String with a format string of "%z". The output is the offset as a STRING formatted HH:MMS
Break the string apart with Scan From String to get the individual elements, or by using "%t" as the format, get the offset in seconds.
Rod.
EDIT: There shouldn't be a smiley in the time format above, It's "HH : MM : SS" but ignore the spaces!

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Edited by: david_david on Aug 4, 2010 2:10 PM

david_david wrote:
We have a windows 2008 server machine, whose time zone is (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada).
I have run a java class file on this mechine, but its not taking the default time zone as UTC-05:00,instead of that its taking GMT, and shows the time in GMT itself.
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import java.util.TimeZone;
public class testing {
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}giving results..
current Date - Wed Aug 04 14:17:01 GMT 2010
current TimeZone - GMT
but actual time on the machine showing is Wed Aug 04 10:17:01 on UTC-05:00
Can any one help in this please...
Edited by: david_david on Aug 4, 2010 2:10 PMI don't know why its doing that but you can easily change the default time zone to whatever you want using TimeZone.setDefault(TimeZone.getTimeZone(String ID)).

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