Re: NSDatePicker weirdness with time.
Re: NSDatePicker weirdness with time.
- Subject: Re: NSDatePicker weirdness with time.
- From: Trygve Inda <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 18:46:54 -0700
- Thread-topic: NSDatePicker weirdness with time.
> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Fritz Anderson <email@hidden>
> wrote:
>> On 6 Jul 2011, at 12:16 AM, Trygve Inda wrote:
>>
>>> It seems that NSDateFormatters instantiated in my nibs get their zone set to
>>> PDT (because of my time settings), despite having called
>>>
>>> [NSTimeZone setDefaultTimeZone:[NSTimeZone
>>> timeZoneWithAbbreviation:@"GMT"]];
>>>
>>> Before any nibs are loaded.
>>
>> Which makes sense. The model is that objects in XIBs/NIBs are instantiated
>> when Interface Builder archives them, not when the NIBs are loaded. Your
>> attempt to initialize them from a runtime default has no effect because
>> they've already been initialized.
>
> Well, it "makes sense" insofar as "this is a plausible explanation for
> this behavior." But it would make much more sense for NSDateFormatter
> to implement -awakeFromNib and configure itself according to the
> locale it's loaded into.
>
Exactly.
I have worked around it of course, but there is no logical reason for the
date/time controls to not configure themselves based on the locale.
T.
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