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André,
On 12/22/11 3:51 PM, André Warnier wrote:
> As Konstantin points out separately, if you are going to use the
> local timezone for anything "serious", then you could get yourself
> into a lot of complications.
No, he's just saying "once a timez
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André,
On 12/21/11 2:24 PM, André Warnier wrote:
> Can you not use GeoIP to find out where a user is connecting from,
> and select his time zone automatically for him/her ? (Saves your
> conumdrum about how to display the choices)
>
> http://www.geoi
Caldarale, Charles R wrote:
From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com]
Subject: Re: [OT] Displaying Time Zones for user preferences
Can you not use GeoIP to find out where a user is connecting
from, and select his time zone automatically for him/her ?
Not reliably. For example, it says
2011/12/21 Christopher Schultz :
>
> We're getting to the point in our project where allowing users to
> identify their own time zone so we can display adjusted timestamps is
> something we can no longer do without. I'm trying to figure out how to
> display a list of time zones in a drop-down list
> From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com]
> Subject: Re: [OT] Displaying Time Zones for user preferences
> Can you not use GeoIP to find out where a user is connecting
> from, and select his time zone automatically for him/her ?
Not reliably. For example, it says my desk
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:24 AM, André Warnier wrote:
> Can you not use GeoIP to find out where a user is connecting from, and
> select his time zone automatically for him/her ?
You still need to offer a manual selection option, because it's just not
always accurate.
Once I was investigating g
Christopher Schultz wrote:
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I feel like I've got a Catch-22, here: despite the wealth of
information provided by the JVM, I think I might still have to just
have a giant list of supported time zones and hand-localize them,
especially if I want to have "America/New York"-style labels.
Does an
