On Fri, 24 May 2013, Leszek Krupiński wrote: > On 2013-05-23 22:10, Stas Malyshev wrote: > > > The "U" in UTC *does* stand for "Universal," after all. It's a > > > sensible default and as such shouldn't > > I don't think it's a sensible default - people don't actually use UTC > > when considering dates. A minority of people can use timezone that > > coincides with UTC, but not very many use actual UTC. > > I was wondering - why not get time zone info from operating system? It's > should be quite easy on both *nixes and Windows. That way default value would > be "from operating system", with possibility to override it in .ini.
You can't, as the OS doesn't give you the timezone identifier in a portable way. cheers, Derick
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