Re: CET timezone
[email protected] ("Edmund von der Burg")
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2008/8/18 Ton Voon <[email protected]>: > I'm very naive in my understanding of best practices regarding timezones, > but DateTime doesn't support the timezone CET. Is there a reason for it? Is > it better to specify a timezone based on a location, such as Europe/Paris? If you ever need to ask a user which timezone they are in the easiest way is to ask them where they are. Hence the 'Europe/Paris' is best. They are also easy to translate into other languages, which English abbreviations are not. Cheers, Edmund. PS Until I looked it up just now I assumed that CET was an American timezone :)