I was once again thinking about the data that I collect from the History Center for my specific platform, and I was wondering if daylight savings times were automatically adjusted.
For example, if the data I get is in GMT, does the summer time data stay in BST, or does it change to what it would be outside of daylight saving (i.e. 20:15 in the summer time would be 21:15).
If it is the former, is there a way to easily convert the BST parts of the data to GMT using MQL?
I found this thread: https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/103514
But I don't understand what the moderator meant by "Time is automatically corrected after download"
That's a pretty old thread you are referring to...
It is possible to do a conversion programmatically using MQL, but best if you post some sample data so we can understand what it looks like
That's a pretty old thread you are referring to...
It is possible to do a conversion programmatically using MQL, but best if you post some sample data so we can understand what it looks like
Sample Data? What would I even be showing you? Does historical data look different for you in the History Center in MT4? Besides potentially having different timezones for the time column I don't see the use of providing this data when what it looks like is relatively well known.
I don't understand the point you are trying to make here. GMT swaps for BST during a certain series of months in the year. Your broker always adjusts for daylight saving (i.e change from GMT to BST during the correct period), I want to know if MQL's History Center does the same?
Sample Data? What would I even be showing you? Does historical data look different for you in the History Center in MT4? Besides potentially having different timezones for the time column I don't see the use of providing this data when what it looks like is relatively well known.
I misunderstood "my specific platform" to be an external system providing a data source, so I was expecting some text lines from a data file, but now you have clarified it is in MT4.
I shall bow out, as I use MQL5 only
Sample Data? What would I even be showing you? Does historical data look different for you in the History Center in MT4? Besides potentially having different timezones for the time column I don't see the use of providing this data when what it looks like is relatively well known.
I don't understand the point you are trying to make here. GMT swaps for BST during a certain series of months in the year. Your broker always adjusts for daylight saving (i.e change from GMT to BST during the correct period), I want to know if MQL's History Center does the same?
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I was once again thinking about the data that I collect from the History Center for my specific platform, and I was wondering if daylight savings times were automatically adjusted.
For example, if the data I get is in GMT, does the summer time data stay in BST, or does it change to what it would be outside of daylight saving (i.e. 20:15 in the summer time would be 21:15).
If it is the former, is there a way to easily convert the BST parts of the data to GMT using MQL?
I found this thread: https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/103514
But I don't understand what the moderator meant by "Time is automatically corrected after download"