Re: Inconsistent time zone

From: Bob I (birelan_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/22/04


Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 11:30:17 -0500

Daylight Saving Time box ticked?

Swansea University Psychology wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a utility that uses the C library function strftime() to return the
> time zone name, but it returns "GMT Standard Time" on one computer, and
> "BST" (which it should be at the moment) on the other computer.
>
> Both PCs are Windows XP Pro Service Pack 2. Both have their time zone set to
> GMT +0 (London). And in the Date & Time control panel applet, both show "GMT
> Standard Time" as the Current time zone. Both have the correct date and time
> values.
>
> Can anyone suggest what's going wrong here?
>
> Regards,
> Neil
> --------------------------------------------
> Neil Carter Psychology Department
> IT Technician University of Wales Swansea
> Wales, United Kingdom
>
> http://psy.swansea.ac.uk/staff/Carter/
>
>
>



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