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'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 > -- 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 San Francisco, California, United States
