So you are saying that there is no corelation between the preference
settings for country and the time zone. The time zone is set independently
of the country setting. The values are still a little confusing for me. So
when you divide 1140 by 60 you get 19 which is the GMTOffset for US Eastern
Time Zone? Oh but you need to subtract this from 24 because you cross the
dateline, which gives you -5 which is the right offset for EST. Now if you
were to change that to PST you would just need to subtract 3 hrs. Is this
how it works?
afshan
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Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 9:13 PM
Subject: Re: prefMinutesWestOfGMT [was: Tips and stuff]
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>
> >Seems to me PrefGetPreference(prefMinutesWestOfGMT) always return
> 1140, no matter which country I change to under Prefs -> Format ->
> Preset To.
>
>
> There currently isn't any UI which changes this preference.
>
> There are two conflicting ideas here I think. The first is changing
countries
> changes how data is displayed. The other is changing time zones doesn't
change
> the time.
>
> I see at least two possibilities. The first is changing countries
doesn't
> affect time at all. The second is changing countries changes the time
zone but
> not the device time.
>
> Palm does the first, but with good reasons it could eventually do
otherwise.
>
>
> -Roger Flores
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