Re: Fix, NSTimeZone Abbreviations

[Georg Fleischmann]

> That list cant be right - it's missing BST (British Summer Time = GMT+1) for
> starters. But if I print [NSTimeZone localTimeZone] on the Mac in front of
> me then it tells me that it is in "BST", so preseuably OSX is quite happy
> to take that ?

That's what I got returned on Mac OS-X and OpenStep by
[NSTimeZone abbreviationDictionary]
The file in
/NextLibrary/Frameworks/Foundation.framework/Resources/TimeZoneInfo/Abbreviation.table
says the same.

I think, the important thing is that it is somewhat defined.
Below are the comments from the OpenStep abbreviation file.
Looks like I have to see how to use the locations instead of abbreviations.
At least now I know why I use UTC, whenever possible :-)

/* The issue of time zone abbreviations is a mess, since the most
   common abbreviations are not unique (there is no one-to-one
   mapping between time zone names and abbreviations, nor the reverse).
   Here, we arbitrarily pick a few. In general it is better NOT to use
   a time zone abbreviations in input or display, since what "CST" in
   aformatted GMT date would likely indicate a different date to auser
   in Chicago, U.S.A. than to one in Sydney, Australia. */

Georg