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André,
On 12/22/11 3:51 PM, André Warnier wrote:
> As Konstantin points out separately, if you are going to use the
> local timezone for anything "serious", then you could get yourself
> into a lot of complications.
No, he's just saying "once a timez
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André,
On 12/21/11 2:24 PM, André Warnier wrote:
> Can you not use GeoIP to find out where a user is connecting from,
> and select his time zone automatically for him/her ? (Saves your
> conumdrum about how to display the choices)
>
> http://www.geoi
Caldarale, Charles R wrote:
From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com]
Subject: Re: [OT] Displaying Time Zones for user preferences
Can you not use GeoIP to find out where a user is connecting
from, and select his time zone automatically for him/her ?
Not reliably. For example, it says
2011/12/21 Christopher Schultz :
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> We're getting to the point in our project where allowing users to
> identify their own time zone so we can display adjusted timestamps is
> something we can no longer do without. I'm trying to figure out how to
> display a list of time zones in a drop-down list
> From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com]
> Subject: Re: [OT] Displaying Time Zones for user preferences
> Can you not use GeoIP to find out where a user is connecting
> from, and select his time zone automatically for him/her ?
Not reliably. For example, it says my desk
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:24 AM, André Warnier wrote:
> Can you not use GeoIP to find out where a user is connecting from, and
> select his time zone automatically for him/her ?
You still need to offer a manual selection option, because it's just not
always accurate.
Once I was investigating g
Christopher Schultz wrote:
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I feel like I've got a Catch-22, here: despite the wealth of
information provided by the JVM, I think I might still have to just
have a giant list of supported time zones and hand-localize them,
especially if I want to have "America/New York"-style labels.
Does an
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All,
We're getting to the point in our project where allowing users to
identify their own time zone so we can display adjusted timestamps is
something we can no longer do without. I'm trying to figure out how to
display a list of time zones in a drop-
