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Re: Locale timeZoneInformation

Posted by Ian Bartholomew-21 on Oct 31, 2005; 2:13pm
URL: https://forum.world.st/Locale-timeZoneInformation-tp3376069p3376070.html

Esteban,

>     I'm trying to use the time zone information provided by a Locale,
> but if do:
>
> Locale default timeZoneInformation "Display-it"
> It fails to print the TIME_ZONE_INFORMATION.

Chris Uppal raised this in a post on the 26th September 2004 entitled
"Bug in Locale timezone info".  The thread didn't have a fix but Chris
may have come up with the reason for the problem.

BTW, It still fails in D6

> However, the TIME_ZONE_INFORMATION>>bias method answer the bias minutes
> related to GMT 0 (Greenwich), but it answers it with the inverse sign.
> i.e. my local bias is -180 and if I evaluate #bias, it answers 180.

Can't really help there - mine answers 0 :-)

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