A specific time on the timeline, for instance “the 4th of july, 2014.
A DateTime value also contains a kind of timezone data, it can be one of:
- Unspecified
- Local
- UTC
This is called the “kind” of the DateTime value can be determined by using the IsUTC, IsLocal and IsUnspecified expression functions.
SeqZap will report an error if two DateTime values with different “kind” are compared or combined, the following script, for instance, will report an error in step #3 because a UTC and a Local DateTime is subtracted from each other:
DateTime values can be converted from one “kind” to another by using the ToLocal and ToUTC expression functions, which will handle the conversion from one timezone to another correctly with regard to the local time of the computer running SeqZap. In other cases the expression functions ForceUTC and ForceLocal can be used to convert a DateTime to another kind without changing the DateTime value itself.