[tz] Time zone confusion in Morocco

Deborah Goldsmith goldsmit at apple.com
Thu Nov 1 18:51:24 UTC 2018


Here is the user-facing documentation for this feature:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206986 <https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206986>

Thanks,
Debbie

> On Nov 1, 2018, at 8:14 AM, Fred Gleason <fredg at paravelsystems.com> wrote:
> 
> On Nov 1, 2018, at 10:48, Dave DeLong <fastmail at davedelong.com <mailto:fastmail at davedelong.com>> wrote:
> 
>> I’ve never seen this info available to application developers. It’s possible it’s buried somewhere in the legalese screens in the Settings app, but I don’t know for sure.
> 
> I’m not seeing it after a quick scan of the legalese, but in Settings->General->Date & Time I am seeing the following notice at the bottom of the screen:
> 
> *** snip snip***
> Updated time zone definitions are available and will be installed the next time iPhone restarts.
> *** snip snip ***
> 
> So, when I go set my TZ to Africa/Casablanca, it tells me the time is 15:00 (UTC +0). Now we go power cycle…
> 
> [… a couple minutes later …]
> 
> After reboot, the phone now reports the time as 1603 [UTC +1], and the message in Settings->General->Date & Time is gone. Therefore, I conclude that the phone has now loaded the current tzdb.  QED.
> 
> I must say, very elegant work from Apple.
> 
> Thank you Dave. Very educational!
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> 
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