[Seaside] Re: Time Zone Point of Curiosity

Michael Rueger m.rueger at acm.org
Sat Dec 16 08:53:51 UTC 2006


Alan Lovejoy wrote:
> Thomas Koschate <koschate <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Whenever I load up an image from scratch, the Seaside installation
>> process seems to have an almost pathological desire to adjust my
>> image's time zone to Central European Time.  Why CET?  Why not GMT, or
>> EST, or PST, or maybe even just assuming that I've already set the
>> time zone that I want?


> In a sense, Squeak does this as well, since its system clock runs in local 
> time, based on whatever local time the host OS claims is correct. But Squeak 
> has no idea what the current offset from Universal Time happens to be.  So, as 

Well, we have a locale plugin for a while now, which allows you to query 
for the local time zone. At least that's what the API suggests, not sure 
it is implemented on all platforms yet.

Michael


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