[twitter-dev] Re: Timezone Data

2009-06-03 Thread Moonman239
On May 18, 4:10 pm, Ryan Chouinard rchouin...@gmail.com wrote: Quick searches of the group didn't yield much information for me, so forgive me if this has been discussed before. I'm working on an application that could benefit from knowing the user's timezone. While I could use the current

[twitter-dev] Re: Timezone Data

2009-05-19 Thread rchouinard
Which still doesn't give me a standard list. I can spend an hour and map the Twitter names to standard timezone names, but my thought was that it would serve the development community better if the standard zone names were returned from the start. Just my $.02 cents, though. You can keep the

[twitter-dev] Re: Timezone Data

2009-05-19 Thread rchouinard
I can get a list of Twitter's zones easily enough, and I understand that. While I could spend time going through Twitter's timezone select box and manually map the values to Olson zone names (which is what I'm sure I'll end up doing), this could be made easier if Twitter simply returned the

[twitter-dev] Re: Timezone Data

2009-05-19 Thread Abraham Williams
I would say the API will try to be consistent with the web interface and those are the strings the web interface currently uses. You can try to convince http://help.twitter.com to change the strings used. On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 06:03, rchouinard rchouin...@gmail.com wrote: I can get a list of

[twitter-dev] Re: Timezone Data

2009-05-18 Thread Abraham Williams
Just take the timezone list from: https://twitter.com/account/settings and convert it on your end. On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 14:10, Ryan Chouinard rchouin...@gmail.com wrote: Quick searches of the group didn't yield much information for me, so forgive me if this has been discussed before. I'm