Re: NSTimezone and offset
Re: NSTimezone and offset
- Subject: Re: NSTimezone and offset
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 13:49:50 +0900
You are confusing the method with secondsFromGMT
CDT is 3600 seconds is one hour ahead of CST and the docs could be more clear about this method being self referential rather than GMT referential.
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On 2013/09/05, at 13:21, Lorenzo Thurman <email@hidden> wrote:
> Im working with NSTimezone and I need to get the current timezone offset, but I'm finding this more difficult than I think it should be. I thought it might just be the way I'm looking at things, but I don't think so.
>
> If create an NSTimezone object and then send that object a daylightSavingTimeOffset message, I get back, for Chicago, 3600. This is wrong, at least for my purposes, for two reasons:
> 1) The offset should negative.
> 2) Chicago is currently observing DST
>
> The value I would expect to see returned should be -3000. I get why the value 3600 is correct at least with respect to the magnitude, as I can see I have this link setup for my system:
> /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago
>
> But, why is it not negative? How do I get the correct offset.
> TIA
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