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
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