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Re: Forum time zone question about DST box
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2018 6:17 pm
by Soothest Sleep
palerider wrote: ↑Mon Mar 12, 2018 5:43 pm
Soothest Sleep wrote: ↑Mon Mar 12, 2018 9:41 am
chunkyfrog wrote: ↑Mon Mar 12, 2018 8:54 am
Not the easiest format to figure out--but I did anyway.
Sadly, not everyone here is a geography geek.
Agreed! The time zone drop-down menu is anything but intuitive. I've never seen a zone location listing like that one before.
It's common. country/major city in time zone.
Actually, it's continent (or ocean)/major city in time zone, as I found when I looked it up. "America" in this context refers to any of the continental Americas, not simply the country whose name is often abbreviated to "America".
Re: Forum time zone question about DST box
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2018 7:46 pm
by Neicy
My time was off too. Still said UTC-5, so changed it to America/New York and that fixed it.
Re: Forum time zone question about DST box
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2018 8:19 pm
by chartle
palerider wrote: ↑Mon Mar 12, 2018 5:43 pm
Soothest Sleep wrote: ↑Mon Mar 12, 2018 9:41 am
chunkyfrog wrote: ↑Mon Mar 12, 2018 8:54 am
Not the easiest format to figure out--but I did anyway.
Sadly, not everyone here is a geography geek.
Agreed! The time zone drop-down menu is anything but intuitive. I've never seen a zone location listing like that one before.
It's common. country/major city in time zone.
But this one is a little long. It took me a few tries to find NYC.
Re: Forum time zone question about DST box
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2018 9:53 pm
by palerider
Soothest Sleep wrote: ↑Mon Mar 12, 2018 6:17 pm
palerider wrote: ↑Mon Mar 12, 2018 5:43 pm
Soothest Sleep wrote: ↑Mon Mar 12, 2018 9:41 am
chunkyfrog wrote: ↑Mon Mar 12, 2018 8:54 am
Not the easiest format to figure out--but I did anyway.
Sadly, not everyone here is a geography geek.
Agreed! The time zone drop-down menu is anything but intuitive. I've never seen a zone location listing like that one before.
It's common. country/major city in time zone.
Actually, it's continent (or ocean)/major city in time zone, as I found when I looked it up. "America" in this context refers to any of the continental Americas, not simply the country whose name is often abbreviated to "America".
Actually... the top level zone file lists this:
Africa America Antarctica Arctic Asia Atlantic Australia Brazil Canada CET Chile CST6CDT Cuba EET Egypt Eire EST EST5EDT Etc Europe Factory GB GB-Eire GMT GMT0 GMT-0 GMT+0 Greenwich Hongkong HST Iceland Indian Iran iso3166.tab Israel Jamaica Japan Kwajalein leap-seconds.list Libya localtime MET Mexico MST MST7MDT Navajo NZ NZ-CHAT Pacific Poland Portugal posix posixrules PRC PST8PDT right ROC ROK Singapore SystemV Turkey UCT Universal US UTC WET W-SU Zulu
But, yes, the America section does have a lot of cities in and around the western hemisphere... including Havana. If you just want the US time zones, you use US/