Guy Harris wrote:

> It Would Be Nice if there were some standard libraries and data sets
> out there to enable making *good* timezone selectors, i.e. something
> that doesn't expose timezone IDs and instead lets you select based on
> your geographical location or on a nearby city.

One could be constructed without undue difficulty from the freely available (CC 
Attribution 4.0) data in GeoNames:

https://www.geonames.org/

For example, their collection of “all cities with a population > 15000 or 
capitals” maps America/Coyhaique to the cities of Coyhaique and Puerto Aysén, 
while their larger collection of “all cities with a population > 1000 or seats 
of adm div down to PPLA3” adds Chile Chico, Cochrane, La Junta, Puerto Cisnes, 
and Puerto Chacabuco.

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Doug Ewell, CC, ALB | Lakewood, CO, US | ewellic.org


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