On 2026-06-12 14:15, Doug Ewell via tz wrote:
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.
Mozilla Thunderbird Calendar (was Lightning/Sunbird/Penzilla add-on/extension)
still exposes raw tzdb identifiers.
No idea about zone selectors used by Apple, Google, Microsoft alternatives.
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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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