[Freeassociation-devel] icaltimezone_get_builtin_timezone yields timezone without history

[Arnout Engelen]

Hi,

icaltimezone_get_builtin_timezone(const char *location) yields a rather 
'simplified' version of the timezone pointed to by location: only the current
way of determining the timezone, without the historical exceptions - like vzic
would report it in Outlook2k-compatible mode.

It this desired behavior? It currently makes the regression tests fail, 
because test 23 expects 2000-11-03 to be non-DST in LA.

In 2000, indeed DST ended the last week of october. Nowadays, however, it ends
the first week of November. Because icaltimezone_get_builtin_timezone only 
returns the current procedure, 2000-11-03 is considered to be DST, and the
regression test fails.

Should icaltimezone_get_builtin_timezone return a timezone with all its 
exceptions intact, or is this function designed to be suitable only for the
current date? 

(I previously sent this mail to freeassociation-libical where it went 
unanswered. Because I saw there was some discussion about this topic here
recently, I decided to re-send it, as it appears this is a more suitable place
for these kind of topics)


Regards,

Arnout