Re: Letting users select timezone

2009-01-20 Thread David Cantrell
Edmund von der Burg wrote: 2009/1/20 Lyle webmas...@cosmicperl.com: Is there something similar to the time zone selection you get in Windows or similar programs? The GMT, GMT+1, etc... You really don't want to do that. Many users don't really understand timezones, but almost all know where

Re: Letting users select timezone

2009-01-20 Thread Eugene van der Pijll
Edmund von der Burg schreef: 2009/1/20 Lyle webmas...@cosmicperl.com: I've been working on a membership system, letting users select their timezone when the signup. ... 'all_names' should return all that you need. Actually, it probably returns more than you want. There are hundreds of

Re: Letting users select timezone

2009-01-20 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Eugene van der Pijll wrote: It may be useful if these kinds of lists were packaged and put on CPAN; maybe I'll do that at some time. If you generated this list programmatically, it'd be better to include it in DateTime::TimeZone, since the list of what's unique can

Re: Letting users select timezone

2009-01-20 Thread Tatsuhiko Miyagawa
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:02 AM, David Cantrell d.cantr...@outcometechnologies.com 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

Re: Letting users select timezone

2009-01-20 Thread Eugene van der Pijll
Dave Rolsky schreef: On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Eugene van der Pijll wrote: It may be useful if these kinds of lists were packaged and put on CPAN; maybe I'll do that at some time. If you generated this list programmatically, it'd be better to include it in DateTime::TimeZone, since the list