Charles Mills wrote: >But I'm not "processing" the name portions of the TZ string. I'm not going >"EDT! Aha! I know what that means..." Here's the problem I am trying to solve: >What goes in timezone_name?
One possible solution: use a standard time zone, say Greenwich and base your names on that zone + - your offset. Something like this: use 'Greenwich+2S' for +2 hours Standard Time, or 'Greenwich-5.5D' for -5.5 hours daylight saving and so on. While you're at it, just use 'Greenwich+?' or 'Greenwich-?' or simply 'local' for your local time. Or just Z+2S or Z-5.5D (Z for Zulu Time) This will work if you are not passing in/out the name from/to other people or software, ie, it will only work if you and your software are the only users of those names. Just a lame suggestion of course after watching this thread with interest. :-D Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
