MSWin Time Zone Names: Localized?

[John Ralls]

On Oct 9, 2012, at 2:49 AM, Geert Janssens <info at kobaltwit.be> wrote:

>> On Oct 6, 2012, at 8:42 AM, Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote:
>> 
>>> My Windows XP is in Dutch, timezone sub entries are in English. There are a lot of other entries also (xxx_uninstall) which are in Dutch though. Not sure if this helps.
>>> 
>>> Geert
>>> <Settings4.jpeg>
>> It helps a lot, thanks.
>> What about the registry subfolders of "Time Zones"? Are they in English or Dutch?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>> 
> John,
> 
> To me it looks like the subfolders are a mix as well. The folder names are in English, but the values use Dutch names (I have attached the Greenland Time folder as example).

Geert,

Thanks. From your screenshot it looks like the folder names are in English and the values inside are in Dutch, so to look up an arbitrary (i.e., user-supplied) tz we'll have to search both.

FWIW, this is about adding MSWin support to GTimeZone in glib.

Regards,
John Ralls