> There is no link from a timezone to the country or countries that use > it. You could use the information available through the Country class > to build such an index though.
This is the bit I couldn't figure out. Could you elucidate? thanks, sanj On 10/22/07, Philip Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 22/10/2007, Sanjay Vakil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What I'd like to do is to show the "simpler" names of timezones, > > rather than the city name: > > > > EST instead of America/New_York > > PST instead of America/Los_Angeles > > > > Is there a way to derive this? > > > > I looked at linked_zones, thinking I could use those, but they don't > > appear to link back to the country in question, or the zone that they > > link to. > > Linked timezones are just aliases to other zones. TZInfo hides the > details of the linked timezone. > > There is no link from a timezone to the country or countries that use > it. You could use the information available through the Country class > to build such an index though. > > > At minimum, from a UI standpoint, it'd be nice to show something like: > > > > EST - New York > > If you are interested in seeing EST/EDT, etc, then you can obtain a > TimezonePeriod object using Timezone#current_period, > Timezone#period_for_utc or Timezone#period_for_local and call its > abbreviation method. > > The New York part can be obtained by calling > Timezone#friendly_identifier(true) > > Phil > > -- > Phil Ross > http://tzinfo.rubyforge.org/ -- DST-aware timezone library for Ruby > _______________________________________________ > TZInfo-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/tzinfo-users > -- The world tends to work out for me. I try to give it reason to. _______________________________________________ TZInfo-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/tzinfo-users
