Rails - May 2006 - flickr like DST timezone management

Hello everyone

I wonder if anyone can point me to the library for timezone management
with DST support, which has timezones, like flickr has. I know that
there is TZInfo, but it''s a bit different for it has huge list of
available timezones in ''Continent/City'' format. I would like
my
application to have timezones list more like on flickr (or windows
regional settings) - shorter and grouped by cities with same DST
conditions. Any experience with that?

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olegf

Oleg Frolov wrote:
> I wonder if anyone can point me to the library for timezone management
> with DST support, which has timezones, like flickr has. I know that
> there is TZInfo, but it''s a bit different for it has huge list of
> available timezones in ''Continent/City'' format. I would
like my
> application to have timezones list more like on flickr (or windows
> regional settings) - shorter and grouped by cities with same DST
> conditions. Any experience with that?
The tzinfo_timezone plugin [1] may do what you are after. It is a 
drop-in replacement for the Rails TimeZone class that uses TZInfo to 
perform the conversions.

The Rails time_zone_select and time_zone_options_for_select [2] helper 
methods will give you a list similar to the flickr timezone list.

  1. http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/plugins/tzinfo_timezone/
  2. 
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/FormOptionsHelper.html#M000407

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Philip Ross
http://tzinfo.rubyforge.org/ -- DST-aware timezone library for Ruby