Alas, I’m just a designer. For advice on that you’d need an engineer.
:-)
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Title:
Adding time zones to
Dear Matthew,
Thanks a lot for your follow-up comment!
> We would have to start maintaining a parallel database that mapped
tzdata zone names, in and out of daylight saving, to their common
abbreviations. Common names would be even harder because they’d need
translating into multiple languages.
There are two separate issues here: choosing the time zone as an item in
the first place, and displaying it in the menu once it’s chosen.
For choosing the time zone as an item, you can already do that with UTC,
because we made sure “UTC” is special-cased as something you can search
for. In
Dear Matthew,
Thanks for raising these two issues.
1. The use of time zones instead of city names is very common in meeting
plannings. For instance, I receive frequent invitations to calls that
are expressed in "16:00 EDT time". People in these meetings rarely refer
to their location as a city.
I see two issues with using time zone abbreviations like this.
First, I think many more people know the name of a city in their time
zone, than know the name of their time zone. For example, I lived in
London for several years before learning that daylight savings time is
called BST.
Second,
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Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
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Title:
Adding time zones
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