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<p>Arnout, it went unanswered because it already contained the answer.</p>
<p>The current code doesn't support it.</p>
<p>and, as usual, yes, patches welcome.</p>
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<div class="message_header"><span>Di Dez 01 2009 14:42:21 EST</span> <span>von "Arnout Engelen" <libical@bzzt.net> </span> <span class="message_subject">Betreff: [Freeassociation-devel] icaltimezone_get_builtin_timezone yields timezone without history</span></div>
<div class="message_content"><tt>Hi,</tt><br /> <tt></tt><br /> <tt>icaltimezone_get_builtin_timezone(const char *location) yields a rather </tt><br /> <tt>'simplified' version of the timezone pointed to by location: only the current</tt><br /> <tt>way of determining the timezone, without the historical exceptions - like vzic</tt><br /> <tt>would report it in Outlook2k-compatible mode.</tt><br /> <tt></tt><br /> <tt>It this desired behavior? It currently makes the regression tests fail, </tt><br /> <tt>because test 23 expects 2000-11-03 to be non-DST in LA.</tt><br /> <tt></tt><br /> <tt>In 2000, indeed DST ended the last week of october. Nowadays, however, it ends</tt><br /> <tt>the first week of November. Because icaltimezone_get_builtin_timezone only </tt><br /> <tt>returns the current procedure, 2000-11-03 is considered to be DST, and the</tt><br /> <tt>regression test fails.</tt><br /> <tt></tt><br /> <tt>Should icaltimezone_get_builtin_timezone return a timezone with all its </tt><br /> <tt>exceptions intact, or is this function designed to be suitable only for the</tt><br /> <tt>current date? </tt><br /> <tt></tt><br /> <tt>(I previously sent this mail to freeassociation-libical where it went </tt><br /> <tt>unanswered. Because I saw there was some discussion about this topic here</tt><br /> <tt>recently, I decided to re-send it, as it appears this is a more suitable place</tt><br /> <tt>for these kind of topics)</tt><br /> <tt></tt><br /> <tt></tt><br /> <tt>Regards,</tt><br /> <tt></tt><br /> <tt>Arnout</tt><br /> <tt></tt><br /> <tt>------------------------------------------------------------------------------</tt><br /> <tt>Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience,</tt><br /> <tt>a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. </tt><br /> <tt>Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere.</tt><br /> <tt><a href="http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev" target="webcit01">http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev</a></tt><br /> <tt>_______________________________________________</tt><br /> <tt>Freeassociation-devel mailing list</tt><br /> <tt>Freeassociation-devel@lists.sourceforge.net</tt><br /> <tt>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freeassociation-devel</tt><br /> <br /></div>
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