I was trying to use NSTimeZone, but I think what he has will work a lot
better. Mine is.... MESSY

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Phil Cockfield <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks Nic - good to know it actually is a TimeZone issue.
>  Being exactly 12 hours off made it look suspicious :)
>
> There must be some other trick, beyond what Mikkel was showing with the *
> ToLocalTime*() methods to have it convert correctly.
>
> Mikkel suggested this:
>
> picker.Date = date.ToLocalTime();
> date = DateTime.SpecifyKind(picker.Date, DateTimeKind.Local).ToLocalTime();
>
>
> Were there other time localization calls you were making for TripWallet?
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 12:44 AM, Nic Wise <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The dates that come out of pickers are GMT. You are GMT+12 :)
>>
>> (I had the same problem developing TripWallet - I was in NZ then, too)
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Phil Cockfield <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > I'm using a UIDatePicker control in a pretty standard way (I think).
>>  That
>> > is, I'm not setting much configuration at all at initialization:
>> >
>> > Control = new UIDatePicker(RectangleF.Empty){ AutoresizingMask =
>> > UIViewAutoresizing.FlexibleWidth };
>> >
>> >
>> > The problem is, when I read the selected Date value out of it, the AM/PM
>> > values are exactly the wrong way around.  Eg. 1PM is being returned as
>> 1AM
>> > and vice versa.
>> >
>> > Here's a GIST of the entire code I've got (for context):
>> >
>> > https://gist.github.com/3082372
>> >
>> >
>> > Is this some kind of time-zone wierdness.  I'm in NZ.  Doesn't seem like
>> > it's time-zones though, because it's an exact reversal of the AM/PM
>> values,
>> > not a shift in the time.
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> > --
>> > Phil Cockfield
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