DST Gotcha

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bigmik Guru Joined: 20/06/2011 Location: Australia Posts: 2981	Posted: 08:59pm 11 Mar 2012         DuinoMiteMegaAn said   Today is DST (Daylight savings time in the US) and with my time/date algorithms I was expecting a hour increase. You would think that a simple compare would work like IF Date$ = "11-3-2012" then increase_time_1_hr <------- does not work A print of Date$ reveals 11-3-2012 <----- The same as the string above ? Both are the same? The trouble is the LEN of Date$ is 10 chars and the LEN of "11-3-2012" is 9 chars? I had to convert the Date$ back to numbers and back to strings again for the compare! BTW ... Another way is to make sure the compare string/array is LEN of 10. "11-3-2012" changed to "11-03-2012" Hi DuinoMiteMegaAn, How did you get a Date$ without the 0 in the middle? Mine always prints in the format of 11-03-2012 ... So a compare with 11-3-2012 would never work. Am I confused here, I seem to be missing something. Mick