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Re: Time zone crap.

Giacomo Tufano
 

You can try

zdump -v /usr/share/zoneinfo.default/Africa/Windhoek

To understand what your system thinks is the timezone in Windhoek, on my system the latest lines are:

/usr/share/zoneinfo.default/Africa/Windhoek  Sat Apr  1 23:59:59 2017 UTC = Sun Apr  2 01:59:59 2017 WAST isdst=1
/usr/share/zoneinfo.default/Africa/Windhoek  Sun Apr  2 00:00:00 2017 UTC = Sun Apr  2 01:00:00 2017 WAT isdst=0
/usr/share/zoneinfo.default/Africa/Windhoek  Sun Sep  3 00:59:59 2017 UTC = Sun Sep  3 01:59:59 2017 WAT isdst=0
/usr/share/zoneinfo.default/Africa/Windhoek  Sun Sep  3 01:00:00 2017 UTC = Sun Sep  3 03:00:00 2017 CAT isdst=0
/usr/share/zoneinfo.default/Africa/Windhoek  Mon Jan 18 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Mon Jan 18 05:14:07 2038 CAT isdst=0
/usr/share/zoneinfo.default/Africa/Windhoek  Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Tue Jan 19 05:14:07 2038 CAT isdst=0

Showing the permanent change...

Il giorno 24 lug 2018, alle ore 16:45, Giacomo Tufano <gt@...> ha scritto:

It seems that Namibia recently changed the timezone permanently (cfr. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4074837/time-zone-and-dst-changes-in-windows-for-northern-cyprus-sudan-and-ton , sorry for the microsoft link 🙂).
I’m unsure what the timezone support on previous macOS version is, but on 10.13.6 is correctly at GMT+2 (as it seems it should do). May be you’re on a previous OS version (or not the latest patch level for the version you have) on Mac and iPad?

HTH,
gt

Il giorno 24 lug 2018, alle ore 16:20, Alex Zavatone via Groups.Io <zav@...> ha scritto:

I’m in the deepest darkest jungles of ferocious downtown Africa at the moment (yeah, science) and if I‘m not smoking crack again, all of my business meetings are jacked up by an hour because something in the NSLocale or time zone management is off by an hour, but apparently all over Namibia and parts of South Africa.

This appears off on my Mac and on 1/2 of my iOS devices.

If I set my Mac to set date and time automatically, it sets the date and time to 1 hour earlier than it is.  Now, Apple sets it to 3:14PM when it’s really 4:14 PM.

I have to set the time manually because of this, but this throws off all of my appointments when I accept them through Apple Mail.  It’s been off like this since Doha and still is off all over Namibia and South Africa.

The odd thing is that my iPad also has this problem, but none of my iPhones (one with a US SIM card and one with a local Namibian SIM card) have this problem.  If I share the Internet connection from the iPhones, the Mac’s time is still incorrect when selecting the time zone automatically.

I don’t even have any idea how to go about debugging this.  Any ideas?


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