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Time Zones
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Since an organization and its Web host may not reside in the same time zone (much less the same country) create a way to adjust the Web host's date/time to be the same as the organization's.

On an included page place code like the following:
<%
mintServerToOrgHourOffset = 3 ' Server is Pacific Time and org is Eastern Time.
mvarOrgCurDtTime = DateAdd("H", mintServerToOrgHourOffset, Now())
mvarOrgCurDt = DateValue(mvarOrgCurDtTime)
mvarOrgCurTime = TimeValue(mvarOrgCurDtTime)
%>
Then on any page for the current date/time istead of:
<%= Now() %>
Use:
<%= mvarOrgCurDtTime %>
And for the current date instead of:
<%= Date() %>
Use:
<%= mvarOrgCurDt %>
And for the current time instead of:
<%= Time() %>
Use:
<%= mvarOrgCurTime %>
And the above could be used in functions such as FormatDateTime() (or in custom functions with specific formats):
<%= FormatDateTime(mvarOrgCurDt, vbGeneralDate) %>
<%= FormatDateTime(mvarOrgCurDt, vbLongDate) %>
<%= FormatDateTime(mvarOrgCurDt, vbShortDate) %>
<%= FormatDateTime(mvarOrgCurTime, vbLongTime) %>
<%= FormatDateTime(mvarOrgCurTime, vbShortTime) %>




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