exact definition of raw time

[bullman]

Can anyone tell me the exact definition of rawtime. It is seconds since Jan 1, 1970 00:00:00 - but it seems to be off by one hour and one minute. For example, during the 12:00 noon, 9/12/2003 one minute bar, rawTime returns 1063364460, which according to my calculation is 11:01, 9/12/2003.

I tried changing my timezone to see if it was based on a certain timezone, and the value did not change, so it is apparently based on local time.

I am passing the date/time of each bar to a DLL and I am trying to avoid having to pass year,month,day,hour,minute,second explicitly.

[eSignal_JasonK]

Hello bullman,

Rawtime is supposed to be the number of seconds since 1/1/1970. I've done a little testing and I've confirmed the result you are experiencing. I've put a word into our development team and will follow up with them on this issue.

Are you able to pass a date object or string to the DLL? Let me know if you've tried getValue("Time").

[bullman]

RE: Reply to post 'exact definition of raw time'

Jason,

I am passing raw time to the DLL, I just adjust it by the necessary
amount. It works fine. The best solution may be just to document the
discrepancy - if you change it, it may affect a lot of existing code =
out
there that does date/time calculations from raw time.

Thanks for your help.=20

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Hello bullman,

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