Re: Letting users select timezone

[email protected] (David Cantrell)
Newsgroups perl.datetime
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Tatsuhiko Miyagawa wrote:

> You can get the user's country ... from Accept-Language HTTP header

No you can't.  I prefer to use English (specifically en-gb) whether I'm 
in the UK, Germany or Japan.  Even if I were to move to Japan 
permanently, I'd still prefer to use English, and so leave that header 
set to en-gb, but would also like sites to know that I'm in the 
Asia/Tokyo timezone.

Or consider that French is used not just in mainland France, but also in 
St Pierre (off the Canadian coast), a load of places in the Caribbean, 
and the Indian and Pacific oceans. (I'm not forgetting Africa, but not 
sure whether all the Francophone countries there use the same dialect 
and so the same language code).

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David Cantrell
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