Is TimeZone.StandardName localized

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David Thielen - 03 Apr 2007 06:22 GMT

In other words, if you are running on Chinese Windows and get
TimeZone.CurrentTimeZone.StandardName is it "Beijing Time" (or whatever it is
in English) or is it a series of Chinese characters?

We need to track/save/etc the timezone of users and if StandardName is
localized then the approach of storing the StandardName won't work.

Also, the registry value HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones\{name}\Index - is that index value guaranteed to
be the same for a given timezone on all versions of Windows? Ie, will
Afghanistan Standard Time have an index of 175 on all past and future
versions of Windows. Or does Microsoft change that value?

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Walter Wang [MSFT] - 03 Apr 2007 12:53 GMT

Hi Dave,

It will return a string in Chinese characters.

For the timezone index question, please check my colleague Jeffrey's reply
in microsoft.public.win32.programmer.international. Thanks.

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Microsoft Online Community Support

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David Thielen - 03 Apr 2007 16:26 GMT

They don't make this easy.

How can I determine what the local TimeZone is without having every standard
name in every language in internal tables?

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David Thielen - 04 Apr 2007 03:36 GMT

Hi;

Can you look at your registry and tell me if it has the key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time
Zones\China Standard Time where the last part is in English - "China Standard
Time"? Because if so, I could use that text. And to confirm, the keys under
it Display, Dlt, and Std are all in Chinese, not English - correct?

This is difficult but I don't want us to have a bug like Excel did for the
change in daylight savings time here in the US.

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Walter Wang [MSFT] - 04 Apr 2007 09:05 GMT

Hi Dave,

Yes the registry key part is "China Standard Time" in English; the three
values "Std", "Display", "Dlt" are having Chinese characters.

I believe Timezone.StandardName is reading the registry and thus having the
Chinese characters.

Regards,
Walter Wang (wawang@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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