Re: Letting users select timezone
[email protected] ("Tatsuhiko Miyagawa")
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:02 AM, David Cantrell <[email protected]> wrote: > From a practical point of view, you probably want users to select first from > a list of areas (eg Europe, or Africa) and then a city within that area, to > avoid having a very long list. Even sorted alphabetically, a long list can > be a pain from an accessibility point of view. You can get the user's country using their preference, or from Accept-Language HTTP header or using IP-to-geo mapping and then use DateTime::TimeZone->names_in_country($cc) to get the list of available TZ names. -- Tatsuhiko Miyagawa