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 standardized names.
I'm not familiar with Ruby, so this may very well be how Ruby lists and names the zones. My experience with other languages, however, is that the Olson / tzdata / "Unix" names are fairly standard and plug right in. I'm not asking where I can find Twitter's zone names, I'm asking why Twitter returns what it does, and if looking into returning something else is warranted. -- Ryan Chouinard 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
