Re: Times in other cities

From what I remember, it was important to not only set the region, but also the locale of the target location you wish to show the time in. The switching of EST to EDT and GMT to BST are handled automatically as mentioned below, but the real world implications are more important. While my

Re: Times in other cities

Apple has a good Technical Q about this: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/qa/qa1480/_index.html Sal > You might want to err on the side of caution and ensure that the Calendar object is explicitly set > to Gregorian rather than using the current system setting. > Jonathan > On 15

Re: Times in other cities

Got it - I understand now. And I kindly thank you for the clarification. On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 9:31 AM Andrew Thompson wrote: > BST is British Summer Time, but also Bering Standard Time (UTC-11). Do you > want to risk getting the wrong one? > > The UK observes daylight

Re: Times in other cities

BST is British Summer Time, but also Bering Standard Time (UTC-11). Do you want to risk getting the wrong one? The UK observes daylight savings time, which being in Boston you no doubt understand means half the year the name of the time zone changes. In Boston Eastern time switches from EST to

Re: Times in other cities

Europe/London = BST though, correct? On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 9:06 AM Andrew Thompson wrote: > > > > On May 15, 2017, at 8:50 AM, Eric E. Dolecki wrote: > > > > Thanks for your reply. Does this look safe to use? > > > > // London > > let locale =

Re: Times in other cities

> On May 15, 2017, at 8:50 AM, Eric E. Dolecki wrote: > > Thanks for your reply. Does this look safe to use? > > // London > let locale = TimeZone.init(abbreviation: "BST") > Use "Europe/London": 1. BST has at least 3 different meanings 2. You'll automatically get

Re: Times in other cities

You might want to err on the side of caution and ensure that the Calendar object is explicitly set to Gregorian rather than using the current system setting. Jonathan > On 15 May 2017, at 13:50, Eric E. Dolecki wrote: > > Thanks for your reply. Does this look safe to use?

Re: Times in other cities

Thanks for your reply. Does this look safe to use? // London let locale = TimeZone.init(abbreviation: "BST") let cal = Calendar.current let date = Date() let comp = cal.dateComponents(in:locale!, from: date) // Local (right now for me it's Boston) let hour = Calendar.current.component(.hour,

Re: Times in other cities

> On May 14, 2017, at 5:47 PM, Eric Dolecki wrote: > > I have a clock. If like to present the times in a few major cities. Say > London, England. Based on the user's current time zone, present the correct > hour, min, and second for London. If I can see how to do it for

Times in other cities

I have a clock. If like to present the times in a few major cities. Say London, England. Based on the user's current time zone, present the correct hour, min, and second for London. If I can see how to do it for one city, I should be good for others. Actually the hour offset probably makes