>>Thanks for that, I suppose now, I am going to have to work out what time
>> zone the server is in, so that I can do my conversion?
>>Is that straight forward?
>>It's a bit of a shame because I am converting from MySQL and that has a
>>"get server time in utc" function.
>>Richard
>>
> Since the server can provide UTC time to a local program, why don't you just write a UDF to get the UTC time and return it to the client that way?
>
> Dan.

Ah, that sounds like it would work.
OK, I think I need to learn about UDF's and see if I can do that.
Thanks for the help.

/me reaches for Helen's book.

Richard