Need Help displaying local time zone, please.

Hi :wave:
I would like to know how I can display the local time zone in a label but not just the GMT offset, I want the whole deal like Windows does.
example: (GMT+/- offset)nameofcity

Thanks to a snippet I found online I am able to populate a listbox with all of the Windows XP dafault time zones however I can't work out how to extract just the local TZ from the system.

I'm using VB6, MSDN is way over my head as I'm not up to speed with the lingo. :rolleyes:
I learn better by example(s).

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
BTW, I already have a Mod with the following:

Code:

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Private Type SYSTEMTIME
  wYear As Integer
  wMonth As Integer
  wDayOfWeek As Integer
  wDay As Integer
  wHour As Integer
  wMinute As Integer
  wSecond As Integer
  wMilliseconds As Integer
End Type

Private Type REGTIMEZONEINFORMATION
  Bias As Long
  StandardBias As Long
  DaylightBias As Long
  StandardDate As SYSTEMTIME
  DaylightDate As SYSTEMTIME
End Type

Private Type TIME_ZONE_INFORMATION
    Bias As Long
    StandardName(31) As Integer
    StandardDate As SYSTEMTIME
    StandardBias As Long
    DaylightName(31) As Integer
    DaylightDate As SYSTEMTIME
    DaylightBias As Long
End Type

Private Const TIME_ZONE_ID_INVALID = &HFFFFFFFF
Private Const TIME_ZONE_ID_UNKNOWN = 0
Private Const TIME_ZONE_ID_STANDARD = 1
Private Const TIME_ZONE_ID_DAYLIGHT = 2

Private Declare Function GetTimeZoneInformation Lib "kernel32" _
(lpTimeZoneInformation As TIME_ZONE_INFORMATION) As Long

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Please us e[CODE] and [/CODE] tags when posting code.

Sorry for not using code tags.

I have found the answer, well at least something I can work with to get the desired info.

http://vbnet.mvps.org/code/locale/ti...biaslookup.htm

Thanx for sharing your answer. It helps members in future with the same problem, to fix theirs :)

Hannes

I jumped the gun a little thinking that my problem was resolved. Although the link points to a good script it still doesn't return the results I'm after.

I am in Brisbane, Australia which is GMT + 10:00, however it appears that all scripts relating to Regional Time Zones return the offset value of "-600" on my system, where it should read "+600" minutes which throws it out by 1200 minutes / 20 hours. Not exactly accurate, hey?

Now going back to my original post, we know that there is a way of getting what I'm after as Windows does it during the setup process and a snippet of a script by Paul Turcksin populates a listbox with all of the Regional Time Zones in the same format.
I had included a snippet of his code below but then read that it was forbidden to do so without his written consent. Unfortunately he failed to include his email address.

So the question is does anybody here know of an API or registry call that will return the following:
example: (GMT+/- offset)nameofcity

as in: (GMT +10:00) Brisbane
or: (GMT -06:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
etc.

Thank you for you tolerance.

From same site http://vbnet.mvps.org/index.html?cod...mezoneinfo.htm

then this http://www.cpearson.com/excel/TimeZo...lightTime.aspx

and then on this page (have to look for it...) http://www.thevbzone.com/s_modules.htm



Good Luck

One nice thing about VB.Net is UTCDateTime

I edited the thread title back to normal