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Provides access to and manipulation of system time zone information.
Includes functionality to retrieve the current time zone as minutes offset from Greenwich and as a standard IANA name.
Defines SbTimeZone as an integer representing minutes west of Greenwich, excluding Daylight Savings Time.
Provides access to the system time zone information.
Typedefs
SbTimeZone
The number of minutes west of the Greenwich Prime Meridian, NOT including
Daylight Savings Time adjustments.
For example: America/Los_Angeles is 480 minutes (28800 seconds, 8 hours).
Definition
typedefintSbTimeZone
Functions
SbTimeZoneGetCurrent
Gets the system's current SbTimeZone in minutes.
Declaration
SbTimeZone SbTimeZoneGetCurrent()
SbTimeZoneGetName
Gets a string representation of the current timezone. The format should be in
the IANA format https://data.iana.org/time-zones/theory.html#naming) .
Names normally have the form AREA/LOCATION, where AREA is a continent or ocean,
and LOCATION is a specific location within the area. Typical names are
'Africa/Cairo', 'America/New_York', and 'Pacific/Honolulu'.
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