Re: Timezone not recognised kludge

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On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 5:35 PM, llewro<wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is for Wine 1.1.28 compiled under a customised personal Linux based on Slackware.
>
> When running winefile from a terminal, get a line:
>
> "fixme:ntdll:find_reg_tz_info Can't find matching timezone information in the registry for bias -720, std (d/m/y): 5/04/2009, dlt (d/m/y): 27/09/2009"
>
> Wine source: ../dlls/ntdll/time.c holds the function "find_reg_tz_info".
>
> Running: # WINEDEBUG=trace+ntdll wine winefile
>
> gives a dump of the trace statements for this function and shows the registry timezone information for timezones as it scans each. It cannot find a match.
>
> This I kind of expect as the TZ info for NZ has been altered recently so the wine source ../tools/wine.inf.in is incorrect.
>
> To do a quick fix I edited the registry timezone info for NZ and changed the day, month and hour to conform to the new values.
>
> However this still did not work!.
>
> Only when I changed the year to 2009 did it work ok.
>
> I think this is basically a bug in the ntdll, time.c functions as the year should not figure in the calculations?.
>
> A resulting reg file fix follows, with comments attached:
>
> [quote]
> REGEDIT4
>
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT/CurrentVersion\Time Zones\New Zealand Standard Time]
> "Display"="Pacific/Auckland"
> "Dlt"="New Zealand Daylight Time"
> "Std"="New Zealand Standard Time"
> "TZI"=hex:30,fd,ff,ff,\
>          00,00,00,00,\
>          c4,ff,ff,ff,\
>          d9,07,04,00,00,00,05,00,02,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
>          d9,07,09,00,00,00,1b,00,02,00,00,00,00,00,00,00
> ; FFFFFD30 = -720 (LONG Bias)
> ; 00000000 = 0    (LONG StandardBias)
> ; ffffffc4 = -60  (LONG DaylightBias)
> ; 2009-04-05 2:00 (RTL_SYSTEM_TIME StandardDate)
> ; 2009-09-27 2:00 (RTL_SYSTEM_TIME DaylightDate)

A patch to wine.inf.in is the proper thing to do, e.g.,:
diff --git a/tools/wine.inf.in b/tools/wine.inf.in
index 8be3246..f3649dd 100644
--- a/tools/wine.inf.in
+++ b/tools/wine.inf.in
@@ -2789,7 +2789,7 @@ HKLM,%CurrentVersionNT%\Time Zones\Nepal
Standard Time,"TZI",1,a7,fe,ff,ff,00,00
 HKLM,%CurrentVersionNT%\Time Zones\New Zealand Standard
Time,"Display",,"Pacific/Auckland"
 HKLM,%CurrentVersionNT%\Time Zones\New Zealand Standard
Time,"Dlt",,"New Zealand Daylight Time"
 HKLM,%CurrentVersionNT%\Time Zones\New Zealand Standard
Time,"Std",,"New Zealand Standard Time"
-HKLM,%CurrentVersionNT%\Time Zones\New Zealand Standard
Time,"TZI",1,30,fd,ff,ff,00,00,00,00,c4,ff,ff,ff,00,00,04,00,00,00,01,00,03,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,09,00,00,00,05,00,02,00,00,00,00,00,00,00
+HKLM,%CurrentVersionNT%\Time Zones\New Zealand Standard
Time,"TZI",1,30,fd,ff,ff,00,00,00,00,c4,ff,ff,ff,d9,07,04,00,00,00,05,00,02,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,d9,07,09,00,00,00,1b,00,02,00,00,00,00,00,00,00
 HKLM,%CurrentVersionNT%\Time Zones\Newfoundland Standard
Time,"Display",,"America/St_Johns"
 HKLM,%CurrentVersionNT%\Time Zones\Newfoundland Standard
Time,"Dlt",,"Newfoundland Daylight Time"
 HKLM,%CurrentVersionNT%\Time Zones\Newfoundland Standard
Time,"Std",,"Newfoundland Standard Time"

-- 
-Austin



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