Installing Mozilla
Dustin Navea
speeddymon at gmail.com
Sat Apr 23 13:54:08 CDT 2005
Perhaps they are thinking along the lines of the whole string being for
example "GMT -06:00 Central Time" ? In which case they wouldnt want to
convert just the GMT as it would product the wrong result. Just an
outsider's opinion ;-)
Dustin
Juan Lang wrote:
> --- Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org> wrote:
>
>>Actually, judging from the pointer values I get on my XP box the
>>buffers seem to be 64 chars long.
>
>
> Okay, changing patch to match.
>
>
>>Still, I'm not sure why Mozilla feels the need to overwrite them, that
>>doesn't seem right.
>
>
> No, it doesn't, although their comments explain the motivation: on some
> versions of Windows NT, the value is incorrectly set for some time zones.
> Nonetheless the code is doing the wrong thing: it's converting an entire
> string, e.g. "GMT Standard Time", rather than the time zone portion alone
> ("GMT").
>
> --Juan
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