Re: NSTimezone and offset
Re: NSTimezone and offset
- Subject: Re: NSTimezone and offset
- From: Lorenzo Thurman <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 07:04:02 -0500
Thank you for clearing that up. I have it now.
On Sep 4, 2013, at 11:49 PM, email@hidden wrote:
> 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.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> 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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