Hi!
I would like to display ZonedDateTime to the user with some kind of formatting
and info of the timezone.
Currently calling ToString() on a ZonedDateTime yields something like this
(es-ES Culture) in Madrid.
Local: 25/04/2013 11:50 Offset: +02 Zone: Europe/Paris
It would be nice to:
1) Give ZonedDateTime better ToString support as other Noda types have
2) Support standard/daylight/summer abbreviations in the
formatting. (I think this info is in the tz database sources, but NodaTime
currently doesnt seem to use it)
3) Make reasonably formatting defaults for a ZonedDateTime including the
systems culture (for example show CET in culture "es-ES" but MEZ if culture
"de-DE")
Formatting examples:
25/04/2013 11:50 CEST
25/04/2013 11:50 MESZ
25/04/2013 11:50 CEST (UTC+2)
25/04/2013 11:50 UTC+02
I suppose this is a very low priority item, as the user generally does not care
about their timezone abbreviation, but it may be useful to give feedback to the
user that this is ZonedDateTime according to a time zone, specially when you
want to display a ZonedDateTime that originates in a different timezone that
the one the user is on.
I think that the OffsetDateTime formatting can also be improved.
Germán
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
germanft...@gmail.comon 25 Apr 2013 at 10:33