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Re: [MacPerl] time, date, and timezone

To: mac-perl@iis.ee.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [MacPerl] time, date, and timezone
From: Stephan Somogyi <list@gross.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 13:22:16 -0700
In-Reply-To: <v04011704b20a05a9b0a7@[10.48.0.42]>
References: <199808252314.QAA23830@chinook.halcyon.com><v04011712b208d3ea112f@[10.48.0.42]> from Vicki Brown at "Aug 25, 9802:00:04 pm"

At 12:07 -0700 26.8.98, Vicki Brown wrote:

> Does the Mac even store a "symbolic" (or offset) timezone? (The
> Date/Time control panel deals with timezones by city...).

That's just for human convenience; the GMT offset is stored in PRAM.

A quick hunt through OSUtils.h shows that the MachineLocation struct
filled in by ReadLocation() contains a long named gmtDelta.

Stephan

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