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 change. :-)
On May 18, 8:37 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just take the timezone list from:https://twitter.com/account/settingsand > 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 working on an application that could benefit from knowing the > > user's timezone. While I could use the current UTC offset, knowing the > > fixed zone would be the ideal solution. Currently, "time_zone" returns > > a general string (ie "Eastern Time (US & Canada)"). Is there a > > reason for this return format instead of using, say, the standard > > Olson / Zoneinfo / tzdata name (ie "America/New_York")? > > > -- Ryan Chouinard > > -- > Abraham Williams |http://the.hackerconundrum.com > Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham > Web608 | Community Evangelist |http://web608.org > This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. > Sent from Mountain View, California, United States
