I've reported this bug, and sent Apple sample code to reproduce it. It's an awful change, and I hope just an oversight that gets fixed in the next iOS 4 update.
On Jun 23, 2010, at 15:51:31, August Hahn wrote: > On iOS 3.2 or less the behavior of NSTimeZone's abbreviationForDate was to > give back a 'normal' abbreviation, i.e. PST for Pacific time. In 4.0 for the > US I still get PST, but for outside North America it gives back GMT+/-XX:XX. > In France it was showing CEST, now I get GMT+02:00. Not very user-friendly! > Can I get the old behavior back? And can anyone explain why this change was > made? > > August > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/rmann%40latencyzero.com > > This email sent to rm...@latencyzero.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com