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Re: NSDate offset woes
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Re: NSDate offset woes


  • Subject: Re: NSDate offset woes
  • From: "Jeffrey J. Early" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:29:15 -0700

If you have a particular time zone that your given time is in, then I've found it easier to just initialize the subclass NSCalendarDate so you can indicate a time zone. If you initialize it with PDT, then it will correctly compensate for DST, depending on the date. Otherwise, specify -0800 as the the time zone, and it won't do any DST corrections.

You'll have to look up those exact time zone names, I don't remember them off the top of my head...

Jeffrey

On Oct 29, 2007, at 7:17 PM, Greg Hoover wrote:

Ok, so you're right. It's DST. That's annoying. There must be a way to force NSDateFormatter to compensate for this, no?


> 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). ...
>
> I'm obviously missing something or this is a bug.



You haven't shown us samples, but is it possible the discrepancy is due to daylight savings time? We're not always at the same offset from either Greenwich or UTC.

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