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<task id="GUID-9A9654C4-4D7F-485E-8253-B2DB25D3DB78" xml:lang="en"><title>Creating a User-Defined Time Zone</title><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><taskbody>

<context id="GUID-56B00847-6F7D-49AB-AFA5-D5ACF0D2EC2F">       <p>This tutorial describes how a device creator creates a user-defined

time zone using <codeph>CTzUserData</codeph>.</p>The high-level steps

to create a user-defined time zone are described in Procedure section:</context>

TZ rules object using <xref href="GUID-EA377928-E467-3761-B572-36AE27841ADC.dita#GUID-EA377928-E467-3761-B572-36AE27841ADC/GUID-6A1D18BB-D4B4-39E3-B4AF-C5736A152195"><apiname>CTzRules::NewL()</apiname></xref>.</cmd>

</step>

<step id="GUID-A0FB246B-6F3F-4E32-BCA4-3CF51CACBA3B"><cmd>Use the <xref href="GUID-C40593C4-D60C-39D5-8CB2-4B5D7BBE8ED4.dita#GUID-C40593C4-D60C-39D5-8CB2-4B5D7BBE8ED4/GUID-2E630EE3-1DDB-3F9D-A75B-2119E1B02EF8"><apiname>CTzUserNames::NewL()</apiname></xref> function to create a TZ names object.</cmd>

</step>

<step id="GUID-81B15C8E-7F6C-4609-B8A0-9DD1F35E4D1C"><cmd>Connect

to the TZ server using <xref href="GUID-052221AD-916E-3E47-9510-AC0495A19A70.dita#GUID-052221AD-916E-3E47-9510-AC0495A19A70/GUID-375E314E-3B59-3722-AECA-1DC873507711"><apiname>RTz::Connect()</apiname></xref>.</cmd>

</step>

<step id="GUID-611E332C-9188-4451-B95F-2FA353D5A109"><cmd>Create a

user-defined time zone using <xref href="GUID-1A53F535-96FC-387D-A02D-CAF8B1CEBCF1.dita#GUID-1A53F535-96FC-387D-A02D-CAF8B1CEBCF1/GUID-6D622414-0E99-39E6-8347-BC8CFD709D1D"><apiname>CTzUserData::CreateL()</apiname></xref>. </cmd>

</step>

</steps>

<example><p>An illustration of the procedure is given below. Note

that cleanup stack management and <codeph>CTzRules</codeph> object

creation details are omitted for clarity. </p><codeblock xml:space="preserve">#include &lt;tz.h&gt; // For CTzUserData etc.

#include <…>

...

// These strings would typically be supplied by the UI 

layer.

_LIT( KTzUserStdName,      ”Mountain Standard Time” );

_LIT( KTzUserShortStdName, ”MST” );

_LIT( KTzUserDstName,      ”Mountain Daylight Time” );

_LIT( KTzUserShortDstName, ”MDT” );

_LIT( KTzUserCityName,     ”Window Rock” );

_LIT( KTzUserRegionName,   ”America” );

// Create TZ rules object.

CTzRules* tzRules = ...;

// Create TZ names object.

CTzUserNames* tzNames = CTzUserNames::NewL( KTzUserStdName,

                                            KTzUserShortStdName,

                                            KTzUserDstName,

                                            KTzUserShortDstName,

                                            KTzUserCityName,

                                            KTzUserRegionName );

// Connect to TZ Server.

RTz tzServer;

User::LeaveIfError( tzServer.Connect() );

// Create user-defined TZ.

CTzUserData* tzUserData = CTzUserData::NewL( tzServer );

CTzId* userTzId = tzUserData->CreateL( *tzRules, *tzNames );

...</codeblock></example>

</taskbody><related-links>

<linklist>

<link href="GUID-E0D4EFAC-85E6-4EF6-B65C-1D1602E3A8FD.dita"><linktext>Create

a user-defined time zone from an existing time zone </linktext></link>

<link href="GUID-676D1493-0035-4AD3-A0E5-A207B25809E4.dita"><linktext>Time

Zone Services Overview </linktext></link>

</linklist>

</related-links></task>