Revisiting time zone testing

divide by 3600.0 instead of 3600

A) Too easy of a solution :D Thanks!

B) How can I test it if the app isn't recognizing the new time on my computer?

I'm not sure I understand your question. Do you mean that when you set your computer's timezone to Newfoundland's TZ and start the simulator then it doesn't show the half an hour difference? Does the computer correctly display the time?

What happens when you change the timezone to any other TZ?

Maybe you can try to see other timezones, I know there are a few with x:30 and I think there's even one with x:15 or x:45 offset

I finally figured it out.  In order for my computer to allow me to test in a different time zone on my Mac, I:

1) Turned off both "Set time and date automatically" and "Set time zone automatically using your current location"

2) Typed in a city in the "Closest City" block

This would then allow the app to test in the new time zone.  Simply, manually entering a time in the "Date and time" did not work.

Of course, because that only sets the time but keeps your actual TZ.

But how is the float solution (/3600.0)? Does it really work?

Sort of.  It gave the decimal answer so I had to go in and format the results.  It gave me the float answer of -2.5000000 ish which I made a more presentable -2:30. 

Thank you for your help.

If you want to present time or duration then you won't find it in the SDK, you'll need to do it yourself. This is what I use:

function formatTime(timeInSeconds as Number, includeSeconds as Boolean) as String {
    var SIXTY = 60;
    var DIGIT1 = "%u";
    var DIGIT2 = "%.2u";
    var SEP = ":";
    var EMPTY = "";
    var sign;
    var time;
    if (timeInSeconds < 0) {
        time = -timeInSeconds;
        sign = '-';
    } else {
        time = timeInSeconds;
        sign = EMPTY;
    }
    var seconds = time % SIXTY;
    time = time / SIXTY;
    var minutes = time % SIXTY;
    var hours = time / SIXTY;
    time = sign + (hours > 0 ? hours.format(DIGIT1) + SEP : EMPTY) + minutes.format(hours > 0 ? DIGIT2 : DIGIT1)
        + (includeSeconds ? SEP + seconds.format(DIGIT2) : EMPTY);
    return time;
}