[Wine]Re: Time zone info problems...

[Mark Knecht]

OK, I tried it and it didn't work. Same error messages when starting Wine....

Any ideas? Regression test again?

Thanks,
Mark


On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 09:31:00 -0800, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>    Installed Caesar 3 this morning under wine-20041019. C3 has worked
> for a long time, but doesn't work under this version due to, of all
> things, time zone information that's missing???
> 
> caesar at flash caesar $ wine .wine/drive_c/SIERRA/Caesar3/c3.exe
> fixme:ntdll:TIME_GetTZAsStr Can't match system time zone name "PST" to
> an entry in TZ_INFO
> fixme:ntdll:TIME_GetTZAsStr  Please add appropriate entry to TZ_INFO
> and submit as patch to wine-patches
> fixme:ntdll:TIME_GetTZAsStr Can't match system time zone name "PST" to
> an entry in TZ_INFO
> fixme:ntdll:TIME_GetTZAsStr  Please add appropriate entry to TZ_INFO
> and submit as patch to wine-patches
> caesar at flash caesar $
> 
> Some Googling led me to a file ntdll/time.c which is not the most
> readable beast, but none the less does seem to be missing the PST
> entry:
> 
>  {"PDT",
>     {'P','a','c','i','f','i','c',' ','S','t','a','n','d','a','r','d',' ','T',
>      'i','m','e','\0'}, 420, 1},
> 
> vs.
> 
>    {"EDT",
>     {'E','a','s','t','e','r','n',' ','S','t','a','n','d','a','r','d',' ','T',
>      'i','m','e','\0'}, 240, 1},
>    {"EST",
>     {'U','S',' ','E','a','s','t','e','r','n',' ','S','t','a','n','d','a','r',
>      'd',' ','T','i','m','e','\0'}, 300, 0},
> 
> So then two questions:
> 
> 1) I should create a new entry
> 
> {"PDT",
>     {'P','a','c','i','f','i','c',' ','S','t','a','n','d','a','r','d',' ','T',
>      'i','m','e','\0'}, 480, 1},
> 
> 60 minutes higher than the 420 that's currently in the one entry and
> recompile Wine? (Why, or why are little things like this not handled?)
> 
> 2) Shouldn't EDT be 'Eastern Daylight Time' and not 'Eastern Strandard
> Time'? (Same change to PDT actually...)
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
>