On Oct 8, 10:40 am, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sanjay wrote: > > Hi All, > > > I am using pytz.common_timezones to populate the timezone combo box of > > some user registration form. But as it has so many timezones (around > > 400), it is a bit confusing to the users. Is there a smaller and more > > practical set? If not, some suggestions on how to handle the > > registration form effectively would help me a lot. > > I'm not a timezone-guru - but I _think_ if there are 400 timezones defined, > it should list them, shouldn't it? What if you lived in the one that's not > part of the "practical subset"?
I think the problem is displaying a dropdown list of timezones. People have little idea of how their timezones are called; it would be better to list countries, which are many but nicely alphabetized, and map the country to its only timezone, or for the few large countries with more than a TZ offer a choice later. Lorenzo Gatti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list