We recently changed to British Summer Time in the UK, but Apple Mail is showing the datetimestamp with ‘BDT’:
Now checking in System Preferences, clearly shows the timezone as BST and location UK.
Interestingly, changing the ”long” time format under international settings from ‘GMT’ to ‘Greenwich Mean Time’ makes mail display:
So it would appear that someone at Apple thinks we call it ‘British Daylight Time’. I’ve reported it as a bug, but I can’t see this being fixed any time soon. Now if it was a PST/PDT issue, that would be a different story.
UPDATE
I have received a reply from Apple, saying “After further investigation it has been determined that this is a known issue, which is currently being investigated by engineering.” Hmmm…
UPDATE: 24th July 2006
Still nothing from Apple, although I have found this bug report on the Common Locale Repository. The actual page showing the wrong data is here. (scroll down to No. 348). If Apple use this as their source, then this could be the reason for the error.
UPDATE: 13th March 2007
The Common Locale Repository appears to have been fixed, so it remains to be seen if Apple have picked up the changes. The Clocks go forward in a couple of weeks time, so we’ll see if Apple Mail shows the correct data. (Not surprisingly, they haven’t and Mail still shows BDT)
UPDATE: March 2009
I don’t know when they fixed it, but Leopard Mail is showing BST.
Apple declares war on Nigels
Absolute classic! Typical merkins.
A warning to all those who host a website using Apache built into Mac OS X.
Installing Tiger will overwrite your httpd.conf file.
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Well, I placed an order for Tiger yesterday.
I was initially upset to see that the UK price was UKP 89 compared to the US price of USD 129 which is about UKP 68 – 21 quid less!, but apparently, the US price does not include VAT (or sales tax), whereas the UK price does.
Forgive the pun, but they’re not comparing apples with apples.
Yet another US-centric offer on .mac.
Come one Apple, give us offers we can all use!
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If you’ve added your CD collection to iTunes, but wish you could have the album covers displayed like tracks downloaded from ITMS, take a look at this site. Find your cover and (if you’re using a Mac) simply drag the picture from the browser to the CD cover window on iTunes.
iTunes occasionally throws up the following when accessing the iTunes Music Store:
Errr… it is the latest version.
It seems to do this when the store site is down, but it’s obviously the wrong error message.
Went to the Apple iTMS – it was empty.
So Apple have finally got round to opening in the UK, but where are all the tracks? 700,000 may sound a lot, but not when it’s full of dross from bands no-one’s ever heard of. Several artists are listed, but with no tracks, or a single obscure track. Where’s Madonna, Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley?
According to The Register, several record labels are holding out. Do these labels really prefer people to copy/download illegal CDs or are they going to realise that the rip-off years are over, and get with the future of music publishing.
We’ll see what happens in the next few weeks. At least it’s here now.