You do realize that mapping time zones to countries will take a _lot_ of maintenance, right?
Countries are changing all the time. Think back to the end of the cold war, when the USSR dissolved, along with Yugoslavio and Czechoslovakia, and at the same time E & W Germany became a single country.
While this is true, it is also true that there are many countries that are *not* changing all of the time. Users in these countries might prefer a more intuitive UI for timezone selection rather than the pedantically correct bulk Olson listings.
Put another way, if we can find a way to programatically categorize say 50% of the Olson DB, this still has value -- correct, it does not automatically digest the entire Olson DB, but if it captures 90% of the timezones in common usage then this effort still has value.
Matt
