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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (download)
« on: February 06, 2014, 04:39 PM »
forget about M$ functions, they simply won't work.
In this case it's either returning an abbreviation or full name....
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/9034b38d-36f8-4204-afb7-6ca61523395b/gettimezoneinformation-cannot-return-correct-standardname

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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (download)
« on: February 06, 2014, 10:24 AM »
actually I would use that list... not only because I'm not qualified enough to decide which country is of most importance from the timezone point of view, but also for it to at least work more or less... It can be improved later on...

But there are problems even with that list of yours... "Central Asia Standard Time" might not have a proper abbreviation.. maybe "CASIA" is ok in that case... maybe not :P (got that one from http://speleotrove.com/pmglobe/pmtimez.html )
The main problem with that list is for example "Dateline Standard Time" ... what's its abbreviation?

Here's the "adopted" list so far:
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  1. -12.00, ?/?             //Dateline Standard Time
  2. -11.00, SST/?           //Samoa Standard Time
  3. -10.00, HST/-           //Hawaiian Standard Time
  4. -09.00, AKST/AKDT               //Alaska Standard Time
  5. -08.00, PST/PDT         //Pacific Standard Time
  6. -06.00, CST/CDT         //Central Standard Time
  7. -05.00, EST/EDT         //Eastern Standard Time
  8. -04.00, AST/ADT         //Atlantic Standard Time
  9. -03.30, NST/NDT         //Newfoundland Standard Time
  10. -03.00, WGT/WGST                //West Greenland Time
  11. -02.00, /               //Mid-Atlantic Standard Time ??????????????
  12. -01.00, AZOT/AZOST              //Azores Time
  13. +-00.00, UTC/BST                //UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) and "British Summer Time" during summer
  14. +01.00, CET/CEST                //Central European Time
  15. +02.00, EET/EEST                //Eastern European Time
  16. +03.00, /               //Russian Standard Time ????????????????
  17.  
  18.  
  19. +03.30, /               //Iran Standard Time
  20. +04.00, /               //Arabian Standard Time
  21. +04.30, /               //Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan Standard Time
  22. +05.00, /               //West Asia Standard Time
  23. +05.30, /               //India Standard Time
  24. +05.45, /               //Nepal Standard Time
  25. +06.00, /               //Central Asia Standard Time
  26. +06.30, /               //Myanmar Standard Time
  27. +07.00, /               //North Asia Standard Time
  28. +08.00, /               //North Asia East Standard Time
  29. +09.00, /               //Tokyo Standard Time
  30. +09.30, /               //Cen. Australia Standard Time
  31. +10.00, /               //E. Australia Standard Time
  32. +11.00, /               //Central Pacific Standard Time
  33. +12.00, /               //New Zealand Standard Time
  34. +13.00, /               //Tonga Standard Time
and as you can see, I tried to adopt it till "Russian Standard Time"... which is probably wrong anyway... as "Moscow Standard Time" time is +4... and I for myself would call that "Russian Standard Time" but +4 is already used...
"Mid-Atlantic Standard Time" doesn't really exist either... and I had to change some names...
http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/ is more trustful in terms of "common" names...

Like I said before... a perfect list will never be possible... not only because a lot of countries use the same offset but got different names, but also because time zones change frequently... that's why the tz database exists... and that one determines the timezone by country... and doesn't have that useful abbreviations... Besides T-Clock doesn't know the country, using that Database will also bloat T-Clock to much.

edit @ 05/28/14, some spelling fixes..

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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (download)
« on: February 02, 2014, 10:29 AM »
That's already done ;) See here: https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=21944.msg336616#msg336616
But it's no "formatting option" it's just using the original tool-tip and calendar :P

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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (download)
« on: January 30, 2014, 10:22 AM »
I haven't had any problem with build 95 plus the Posix dll on Win 8. [...]
-x16wda (January 29, 2014, 06:08 PM)
Does that mean without “Posix dll” there's a problem? Honestly... I don't even know what you've meant by “Posix dll”...

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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (download)
« on: January 29, 2014, 08:19 AM »
May I ask you what's wrong with Windows 8? I've tested T-Clock there and it was working fine^^
Actually my HD space is limited and my PC isn't the best as well, so I can't install Win8 on a virtual machine... all my testing was limited to remotely testing it on a friends machine.
So what doesn't work there?

I've also read your article (at least the updated stuff) and want to let you know that my "fork" as you've called (which isn't that wrong) doesn't currently use stuff from TClockLight kt... I've just thought about using its NTP stuff/tool since it's improved over T-Clocks. But never did so as of now ;)

Did Stoic Joker really talk about rewriting T-Clock? Sure there's stuff that has to be improved... but I see no real reason to rewrite it from scratch :P (I do so little by little ;)) One could improve the way it hooks into the clock, how the DLL and executable work together to further improve performance and stability on possible crash... but T-Clock is already light in RAM and CPU usage

PS: I'm still not done with T-Clock... for example one still wants proper TZN support, but I'm still kinda stuck there as there isn't just one unified timezone name per time offset... PST/PDT etc. for USA seems ok... same as UTC for England.. maybe even CET for "Central European Time"... but there are other countries beside some in Europe that use UTC+1 and it gets even worse going further east... There are multiple names for the same time offset... not easy to unify that for T-Clock... some will be happy, others not.
So if someone got a good timezone list with just 1 name per offset, I'll be happy :P (even though it cannot be done perfectly...)

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