Re: [android-developers] Re: Strange timezone issue, when I set timezone to Alaska

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 9:16 PM, String <sterling.udell@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 23, 2:08 pm, "A.TNG" <tang.j...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes. In my case, I need to get TZ offset as of  Jan 1, 1970. And
>> sometime we pass a minus number to getOffset(), like -3600000.
>
> OK, cool. That's just not what most people do with getOffset(), so I
> thought I should check.
>
>> I'm not sure Alaska timezone will be GMT-10 in 1970.
>
> Looks like AK was GMT-10 from 1918 to 1983:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Time_Zone#History
>
> String
>

Thanks String. You're really a good guy. Thanks for your kind help. :-)

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