Just take the timezone list from: https://twitter.com/account/settings and
convert it on your end.

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 14:10, Ryan Chouinard <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Quick searches of the group didn't yield much information for me, so
> forgive me if this has been discussed before.
>
> I'm working on an application that could benefit from knowing the
> user's timezone. While I could use the current UTC offset, knowing the
> fixed zone would be the ideal solution. Currently, "time_zone" returns
> a general string (ie "Eastern Time (US &amp; Canada)"). Is there a
> reason for this return format instead of using, say, the standard
> Olson / Zoneinfo / tzdata name (ie "America/New_York")?
>
> -- Ryan Chouinard
>
>


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