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Subject: Re: Getting the 3 letter time zone abbreviation
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On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 10:09:39 UTC+1, Dmitry A. Kazakov  wrote:
> On 2020-04-29 10:46, Bob Goddard wrote:
> > I'm sure this has been asked many times...
> > 
> > I need to get the 3 letter time zone abbreviation.
> 
> 3-4 you mean, e.g. CEST.
> 
> > Does anyone have code that can do that?
> 
> I had only a partial success. I used GTK/GLib time zone functions. The 
> abbreviation of the zone name is the thing. Unfortunately it works 
> poorly under Windows, and Windows updates tend to break time zone 
> settings [*] I needed to plant various fallback to deduce the zone from 
> UTC offset.
> 
> Anyway, Ada bindings are here:
> 
> http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de/ada/gtkada_contributions.htm#5.14
> 
> -----------
> * I believe it was the case why one could not log into Origin account 
> for a couple of days not so long ago. Their server verified the time 
> zone and blocked access because Windows reported garbage.

Seems easier just to import strftime and call it requesting just "%Z". This is on Linux, but MS suggests it should also work on Windows.


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