According to the docs, acceptable time zone names include names like
US/Pacific. What are the other names that can be used? Central,
Mountain, Atlantic? What's Hawaii's in this style?
I can't find US/* names in the list supplied by [NSTimeZone
knownTimeZoneNames], or in online sources
On Mar 11, 2009, at 3:15 PM, Rick Mann wrote:
According to the docs, acceptable time zone names include names like
US/Pacific. What are the other names that can be used? Central,
Mountain, Atlantic? What's Hawaii's in this style?
I can't find US/* names in the list supplied by [NSTimeZone
On Mar 11, 2009, at 1:15 PM, Rick Mann wrote:
According to the docs, acceptable time zone names include names like
US/Pacific. What are the other names that can be used? Central,
Mountain, Atlantic? What's Hawaii's in this style?
If you'd like to know, then take a look at the contents
On Mar 11, 2009, at 12:25:49, Nick Zitzmann wrote:
On Mar 11, 2009, at 1:15 PM, Rick Mann wrote:
According to the docs, acceptable time zone names include names
like US/Pacific. What are the other names that can be used?
Central, Mountain, Atlantic? What's Hawaii's in this style
On Mar 11, 2009, at 12:29:05, Philip Ershler wrote:
From the Date Time control panel Hawaii seems to be HST (ST
denoting standard time I believe. Central is currently CDT (for
daylight savings). Mountain is MDT, Eastern is EDT and Atlantic is
ADT.
Thanks. The problem I'm facing is that
On Mar 11, 2009, at 2:14 PM, Rick Mann wrote:
I can't find US/* names in the list supplied by [NSTimeZone
knownTimeZoneNames], or in online sources.
That's because they were taken out in Leopard. Several other
countries' were as well.
Huh. They seem to exist in /usr/share/zoneinfo
On Mar 11, 2009, at 13:16:33, Nick Zitzmann wrote:
On Mar 11, 2009, at 2:14 PM, Rick Mann wrote:
I can't find US/* names in the list supplied by [NSTimeZone
knownTimeZoneNames], or in online sources.
That's because they were taken out in Leopard. Several other
countries' were as well.
On Mar 11, 2009, at 2:18 PM, Rick Mann wrote:
I see. Do you know why that was done?
No. I can only guess that they were redundant...
Nick Zitzmann
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Please do
These are called Olsen names. One typically uses a city style. e.g.
America/New_York, Europe/London.
Which is a bit arbitrary but captures the DST thing well. In theory,
the timezone ET captures EST and EDT but the 2 letter names are even
more ambiguous than the 3 letter names, and I am
