Calculate UTC time from time server?

[Minh Truong Pham]

Hello all,

I trying to build indicator relax with sessions open and close. Input time setting is UTC, so i need to convert each time[i] (broker time) to UTC time. My ideal is 

hourshift=(int)(TimeCurrent()-TimeGMT())/3600; Print("hourshift: ",hourshift);
or
MqlDateTime tc,tgmt;
TimeCurrent(tc); TimeGMT(tgmt); 
hourshift=tc.hour-tgmt.hour;

this will calculate shift hour from broker time to UTC and this value is static, in loop of indicator need ajust this hourshift.

BUT i found strange: hourshift some time =2, some time=3.  I ask my broker (perperstone) and their timezone is GMT+3 so i thing my hourshift value always 3.  

Can you please clean for me? Or help me better way to calculate hourshift beetween broker time and UTC time?

Thank you!

[Soewono Effendi]

convert to unix time and use it to calculate the time shift.

1 Hour = 60 x 60 seconds

good luck.

[Minh Truong Pham]

Soewono Effendi #:
convert to unix time and use it to calculate the time shift.

1 Hour = 60 x 60 seconds

good luck.

I tried

hourshift=(int)((long)TimeCurrent()-(long)TimeGMT())/3600; Print("hourshift: ",hourshift);

but same result

[Yashar Seyyedin]

Minh Truong Pham:
+3 so i thing my hourshift value always 3.  

I think you should go for minutes shift instead of hour shift. This is safer.

[Carl Schreiber]

Try this: https://www.mql5.com/en/code/45287

[Minh Truong Pham]

Carl Schreiber #:
Try this: https://www.mql5.com/en/code/45287

Thank  Carl Schreiber ! This work!

[Carl Schreiber]

Minh Truong Pham #:

Thank  Carl Schreiber ! This work!

:)

Glad that it helped!