I'm importing a set of dates from a file that I create using
dateWithString:. I've encountered some odd behavior in that some of
the dates are created with an offset of -0700 for PDT and a few have
the offset -0800 (also PDT apparently). The date "value" is the same
-- when I print them out, the dates that show -0800 are adjusted by
an hour (the local time zone is -0700 btw). I can't seem to create
all the dates with the same -0700 offset. This issue doesn't really
matter until the dates need to be displayed, but NSDateFormatter
tends to respect the offset associated with the date, which is odd
because my understanding is that the date has no associated time zone.