The Etc ones won't work as they don't obey DST. The ones on your picture seem to be the standard tzconfig timezones. If we want to produce a smaller list, we'd have to make a mapping of the small list onto standard timezone rules, and maintain it whenever the rules change. (E.g. when countries split or merge or decide to change to a different timezone).
-- Stephen Turner -----Original Message----- From: Erik Weber [mailto:terbol...@gmail.com] Sent: 21 April 2015 11:03 To: dev Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] [UI] List of timezones available in the picker and potentially other places I'm not sure I agree My main issue is the number of elements, not necessarily their order. Now matter how you order ~600 elements it'll be a mess to find the right one There's quite a lot of redundancy here, for my local timezone (UTC+1 / CET) there are multiple options who all maps to the same timezone: - Etc/GMT+1 - Europe/Oslo (or any other city in CET) - CET If I'd been in america there'd even be a couple of of SystemV abbreviations available. My question is; do we really need all this? We're asking for timezone, not location after all. If we are to keep the list, would it make sense to have a condensed version on top, showing all timezones from Etc ? -- Erik On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Milamber <milam...@apache.org> wrote: > > I think a simply alphabetical order would be sufficient. Or perhaps > with a 2 steps, first choose the continent, second choose the city. > > > On 21/04/2015 09:21, Erik Weber wrote: > > When you set up recurring snapshots, and potentially other places in > > the > UI > > where you have to relate to time, you choose timezone from a table > looking > > like [1]. > > > > I, and some of our customers, find this very hard to navigate. > > The list currently contains 618 items.. 618... > > > > I'd like to propose to shorten this list, perhaps to a few common > > abbreviations only (PDT/EST/GMT/CET etc.), but would like feedback > > from others first. > > > > > > > > [1] > > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/iocoek507q0c9r8/Screenshot%202015-04-21%2010 > .10.21.png?dl=0 > > > >
