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Re: Bug in DateString with TimeZone?

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  • Subject: [mg93463] Re: Bug in DateString with TimeZone?
  • From: Bill Rowe <readnews at sbcglobal.net>
  • Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 05:26:22 -0500 (EST)

On 11/8/08 at 3:59 AM, ncc1701zzz at gmail.com (Nacho) wrote:



>I'm trying to get the time in format HHMM in Timezone GMT and I'm
>having problems, TimeZone works weird.

>I don't know if it is a bug. My Timezone is GMT+1, and I get:

>In[25]:= DateString[{"Hour", "", "Minute"}] Out[25]= "2122"  (It's
>OK)

>In[26]:= DateString[TimeZone -> 0] Out[26]= "Fri 7 Nov 2008
>20:22:17" (It's OK)

>In[27]:= DateString[{"Hour", "", "Minute"}, TimeZone -> 0] Out[27]=
>"2222" (Wrong! this is GMT+2)

>I solved my problem using:

>In[28]:= DateString[AbsoluteTime[TimeZone -> 0], {"Hour", "",
>"Minute"}] Out[28]= "2022"

>but I think there is a problem with TimeZone...

I don't think the problem should be attributed to TimeZone but
should be attributed to DateString. It does look like a bug. It
appears the value of $TimeZone is being added in one case when
it should be subtracted. In my case I get

In[7]:= $TimeZone

Out[7]= -8.

In[8]:= DateString[{"Hour", "", "Minute"}]

Out[8]= 0914

In[9]:= DateString[TimeZone :> 0]

Out[9]= Sat 8 Nov 2008 17:14:26

In[10]:= DateString[{"Hour", "", "Minute"}, TimeZone :> 0]

Out[10]= 0114

In[11]:= $Version

Out[11]= 6.0 for Mac OS X PowerPC (32-bit) (May 21, 2008)


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