Don't servers report time as GMT???

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Hi all

I thought that the server always reports time as GMT, but I am getting a 9-hour difference betwen my TimeLocal - Vancouver, Canada, which is in the Pacific Standard Time zone, which is the same as GMT(-8) - and the server time (TimeCurrent()). That would mean that the time I am getting from the server is not a GMT time but it's own local time.

But even if the local time of the server is returned - again, MetaQuotes Demo server (AlpariUK-Demo) should be in the GMT zone (it says it's UK, would be logical to assume it is in the UK somwehere, correct?), so again I'm looking for a 8-hour difference and yet I am getting 9 hours... :(

I thought it could it be something is messsed up with DST and where MQL gets the local time on my computer? But how can it be - it displays it properly when I use Print to print it...

help please, Here's the snippet I am running:

bool bFirstTick=true;
 
int TimeDiffWithServer()
{
    int iTimeServer = TimeCurrent();
    int iTimeLocal = TimeLocal();
    
    // compensate for a possible diff. in seconds due to network lag
    int iTimeServerSecondsOnly = iTimeServer%60;
    int iTimeLocalSecondsOnly  = iTimeLocal%60;
    
    iTimeLocal = iTimeLocal-iTimeLocalSecondsOnly+iTimeServerSecondsOnly;
    
    return (iTimeLocal-iTimeServer);
}
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| expert start function                                            |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
int start()
{
//----
    if(bFirstTick)
    {
        Print("Current Local time: ", TimeToStr(TimeLocal(), TIME_DATE|TIME_SECONDS ) );
        Print("Current Server time: ", TimeToStr(TimeCurrent(), TIME_DATE|TIME_SECONDS ) );
 
        Print("Current Local time: ", TimeLocal() );
        Print("Current Server time: ", TimeCurrent() );
 
        Print("Time Diff with server is : ", TimeDiffWithServer()/PERIOD_H1/60," hours");
 
        bFirstTick=false;
 
       }
//----
    return(0);
}



this is the output:

2007.01.30 19:58:07 TestTimeZone EURUSD,M1: removed
2007.01.30 19:58:07 TestTimeZone EURUSD,M1: deinitialized
2007.01.30 19:58:00 TestTimeZone EURUSD,M1: Time Diff with server is : -9 hours
2007.01.30 19:58:00 TestTimeZone EURUSD,M1: Current Server time: 1170219480
2007.01.30 19:58:00 TestTimeZone EURUSD,M1: Current Local time: 1170187080
2007.01.30 19:58:00 TestTimeZone EURUSD,M1: Current Server time: 2007. 01. 31 04:58:00
2007.01.30 19:58:00 TestTimeZone EURUSD,M1: Current Local time: 2007. 01.30 19:58:00
2007.01.30 19:57:58 TestTimeZone EURUSD,M1: initialized
2007.01.30 19:57:50 TestTimeZone EURUSD,M1: loaded successfully

thanks
 
each dealer  sets time differently. Usually between GMT and GMT+3.
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