Flickr like DST timezone management

Rails
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Hello everyone

I wonder if anyone can point me to the library for timezone management
with DST support, which has timezones, like flickr has. I know that
there is TZInfo, but it’s a bit different for it has huge list of
available timezones in ‘Continent/City’ format. I would like my
application to have timezones list more like on flickr (or windows
regional settings) - shorter and grouped by cities with same DST
conditions. Any experience with that?

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olegf

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Oleg F. wrote:

I wonder if anyone can point me to the library for timezone management
with DST support, which has timezones, like flickr has. I know that
there is TZInfo, but it’s a bit different for it has huge list of
available timezones in ‘Continent/City’ format. I would like my
application to have timezones list more like on flickr (or windows
regional settings) - shorter and grouped by cities with same DST
conditions. Any experience with that?

The tzinfo_timezone plugin [1] may do what you are after. It is a
drop-in replacement for the Rails TimeZone class that uses TZInfo to
perform the conversions.

The Rails time_zone_select and time_zone_options_for_select [2] helper
methods will give you a list similar to the flickr timezone list.

  1. http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/plugins/tzinfo_timezone/

–
Philip R.
http://tzinfo.rubyforge.org/ – DST-aware timezone library for Ruby