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Quick Objects - Time Zones

Quick Objects - Time Zones library is a very powerful library that provides date time conversion between various time zones across the world. The day light savings rules are automatically applied by the library whenever a date time value falls in the DST observance time period. There are no cumboresome calculations that need to be done, one method call and you get the correct value. There is no other component that provides such accuracy of time difference calculations as ours!

Is your application affected by the US Daylight Savings changes in 2007? If so please download and try out our free 30 day trial version of Quick Objects Time Zones component and see for your self that how easy it is to eliminate this very common problem!

With more and more distributed applications being developed and used it is becoming an essential part of the development process to be able to provide DateTime values in a user's time zone. A lot of time zones observe day light savings (DST), their time changes during a pre determined period of time. To add this problem the DST rules can be changes anytime, meaning that there is no guarantee that one rule that what works in one year may or may not work in another year. To add to this problem is the inability of the Windows based operating systems to keep track of all these rules changes. Essentially when one rule changes a new update is issued by Microsoft that updates the DST rule for that time zone in Windows. This however causes the old rule to be lost, and hence now if an application that relies on Windows data and calculations to calculate time zone differences will end up with wrong results for the previous year. Microsoft and other Software Vendors that rely on this technique have to wait for the year in which the DST rule is going to change to issue such an update and can not be issued before that. Once this patch/update is applied on a system the date and time values from previous years that did not fall in DST time may end up being considered as part of DST time and the time calculated by the Windows API will be inaccurate.

In addition to the above mentioned problem of time zone calculations in windows operating system, the .NET Framework does not provide any means at all for a .NET developer to calculate time zone difference or even provide access to the windows time zone rules and data. QuickObjects TimeZones libraries provides a quick, easy and flexible solution to all of these problems. The data for all time zones including their appropriate DST rules are included in the library itself (only 10 are available in trial version). The library also provides methods that allow the developer to get time in any given time zone when UTC time zone is available or when UTC time from any local time. These calculation automatically apply the correct DST rules appropriate for the time being converted.

Time Zones library also can be integrated with Quick Objects Business Logic Framework to provides date time values in user's time zone automatically without any extra effort or coding on the developer's part. With just one configuration setting or modifying a property value can have these two libraries working together. In addition to these capabilities, the Time Zones library also includes a large number of very useful date time calculation functions that can be very useful in any application. Best of all, we have already included the latest time zones and their rules data so you don't have to worry about keeping up with the changing rules of the various time zones.

Take a look at the list of features to see how Quick Objects - Time Zones can help you....

	Accurate Calculations
	Quick Objects - Time Zones library provides most accurate time zone conversions compared to any of the competing products.
	Quick Objects - Time Zones does not rely on the windows operating system for time zone data and daylight savings rules. We have included the time zones data and their respective day light savings rules along with the library ensuring that you not only get the most accurate calculations but also the data and rules for such calculations. If you have ever tried to rely on windows operating system to provide you the time zone differences you will know that windows operating system does not handle time zones with more than one daylight savings rule very gracefully. In fact, the updates that are applied to your system to update the DST rules, get rid of the old rules. This causes the old date times to be converted/calculated with new rules and can cause large amounts of inaccurate data in applications that are required to display/store date time values in multiple time zones. Quick Objects - Time Zones component is designed to provide accurate time zone differences and rules are applied based on the date time being converted and not based on the current DST rule in affect.

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