In Linux you can do: #include "crt/time.bi" dim as time_t t dim as tm lt localtime_r(@t, @lt) print "gmt offset is "; lt.__tm_gmtoff / 3600 print "time zone is "; *lt.__tm_zone In Windows, there's a Win32 api call for this: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win...

Hello,

Is there a possible way to read the computer's time zone ?
For example UTC+2, UTC+3 .etc ?

Thank you

I confirm that there is a bug using append with Encoding

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But if I try Open myFilePath For Append As #1 then I can

To be precise I didn't test the "write to file method". I tried to read the pipe data and just print them on screen. I do not want to use a "write to file" method in order to list the files. I want to make it thread safe without using a temp file on the harddrive. I can only test...

Thank you for your replies. Still have not made it work... The code I am using, after you suggested to use a pipe, is the following. The problem occures while reading the pipe data Dim UserPath as String = "C:\users\nsiat\Desktop" Open Pipe "dir /b " & UserPath For Input enco...

This actually works!
But how I can get the response from the shell("dir /b " + path) ?

dodicat wrote: ↑Sep 18, 2022 9:33 Just try shell then.

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var path="C:\Users\nsiat\Desktop"  
shell("dir  /b " + path)
sleep
 

Hello, I get questionmarks in place of non Unicode characters. My OS is Windows 10 This is the output I get even by using the shell("chcp 65001") ``` File 0 C:\Users\user\Desktop\1.png File 1 C:\Users\user\Desktop\AnyDesk.exe File 2 C:\Users\user\Desktop\desktop.ini File 3 C:\Users\user\De...

@dodicat I tried the shell("chcp 65001")
I see "Active code page: 65001" on the output but the results are the same...
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