I'm having a problem with Crystal Reports that use the ShiftDateTime function on a French Win7 x64 OS with the time zone set to "(UTC+01:00) Bruxelles, Copenhague, Madrid, Paris". I get an error of 'The time zone string is not valid'. The call I used was converting a DateTime to local time.
DateValue(ShiftDateTime({tOpenDate},"UTC,0",""))
I used the PrintTimeZone method to display what the time zone looks like.
On the French OS the return is
“Paris, Madrid,-60,Paris, Madrid (heure d’été),-60;3.5.0/02:00,10.5.0/03: "
There are too many commas and I believe this is causing the error.
On an English system with that time zone PrintTimeZone returns
“Romance Standard Time,-60,Romance Daylight Time,-60;3.5.0/02:00,10.5.0”
I do not know if there is a bug in Crystal or the OS but this is causing our French customers problems.
This report has been working for a while and works on a bunch of different time zones. This one time zone on this French OS is the only one we have seen causing this error.
The time zone string is not valid.
Details: errorKindFailed to export the report.
Error in File Worksheet_UID {BB9108BC-E747-4BDA-A325-1E77DC6D49A1}.rpt:
Error in formula OpenDate:
'DateValue(ShiftDateTime({vw_CallSheets.tOpenDate},"UTC,0",""))'
The time zone string is not valid.
Details: errorKind