Re: Fix, NSTimeZone Abbreviations

[Alex Perez]

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Pete French wrote:

> > 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 
> 
> Sigh. You didnt actually bother reading the lists did you Alex ? It
> contains both PST and PDT which rarther blows that argument out of the water.
> Did you not think that would be the first explanation I thought of and would
> check the other zones ? There are many summertime/standard pairs in there.

Wooh, please excuse this crack-headed 3AM e-mail.

> 
> > Bottom line is the list is not wrong.
> 
> The list is obviously wrong because it doesnt contain the current value
> returned by the object! How can you possibly argue that that's correct
> behaviour for *any* object ?

See above. In the future I'll refrain from sending e-mails to the list 
when I should be sleeping.

Cheers,
Alex Perez