On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Pete French wrote:
> > The list is right. BST is not a time zone, it is a mode of time. You said
> > it yourself, it's GMT+1 for the duration of the year that summer time is
> > in effect. This needs to be handled separately. When I set my time zone in
> > windows or OS X, I
> The list is right. BST is not a time zone, it is a mode of time. You said
> it yourself, it's GMT+1 for the duration of the year that summer time is
> in effect. This needs to be handled separately. When I set my time zone in
> windows or OS X, I choose "Pacific (GMT -8:00)" and there is *ONE*
On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Pete French wrote:
> > Here are the lists used on OpenStep and Apple. There is only a minor
> > difference between them (Apple added UTC and removed HDT).
>
> That list cant be right - it's missing BST (British Summer Time = GMT+1) for
> starters. But if I print [NSTimeZone
> That's what I got returned on Mac OS-X and OpenStep by
> [NSTimeZone abbreviationDictionary]
Interesting - so it is actually using abbreviations internally that it is
not returning in that dictionary then ? I just tried it and I get
the same as you - yet asking for [[NSTimeZone localTimeZone] ab
> That list cant be right - it's missing BST (British Summer Time = GMT+1) for
> starters. But if I print [NSTimeZone localTimeZone] on the Mac in front of
> me then it tells me that it is in "BST", so preseuably OSX is quite happy
> to take that ?
That's what I got returned on Mac OS-X and OpenS
> Here are the lists used on OpenStep and Apple. There is only a minor
> difference between them (Apple added UTC and removed HDT).
That list cant be right - it's missing BST (British Summer Time = GMT+1) for
starters. But if I print [NSTimeZone localTimeZone] on the Mac in front of
me then it t
Hi,
I realized that the list of time zone abbreviations coming with GNUstep is
very long and all keys are used multiple times. The dictionary generated for
mapping uses the first match from the file, which would map CET to Africa
(which would map back to WET). This is wrong, of course.
The
