How to determine whether the OS has the latest DST rules
yoshito_umaoka at us.ibm.com
yoshito_umaoka at us.ibm.com
Thu Nov 6 20:47:39 UTC 2008
> I am working on an issue related to Brazil timezone. Our code reads
> the DST rules from windows registry instead of tzdata.
>
> My question is -- how do I determine whether the windows system has
> applied the latest timezone DST rules from the following registry? I
> don't know how to interpret the binary data
To access time zone rules used by Windows, you can use the API below -
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.timezoneinfo.getadjustmentrules.aspx
-Yoshito Umaoka
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