Re: Fix, NSTimeZone Abbreviations

[Alex Perez]

On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Pete French wrote:

> > Here are the lists used on OpenStep and Apple. There is only a minor  
> > difference between them (Apple added UTC and removed HDT).
> 
> 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 ?

The list is right. BST is not a time zone, it is a mode of time. You said 
it yourself, it's GMT+1 for the duration of the year that summer time is 
in effect. This needs to be handled separately. When I set my time zone in 
windows or OS X, I choose "Pacific (GMT -8:00)" and there is *ONE* pacific 
time zone. THen, there's a checkbox for "automatically adjust daylight 
savings time." This does NOT affect the actual time zone, even though we 
here also have the term "Pacific Daylight Savings Time"

Bottom line is the list is not wrong.