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Subject:Re: Usability poll: Picking timezones From:"Lin Sims" <ljsims -dot- ml -at- gmail -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:50:41 -0500
I've gotten an agreement from one of the lead programmers to add
making the list sortable by either location or offset as an
improvement to the UI . Everyone gets what they want, although I may
not get it as soon as I'd like.
The current list simply pulls the complete list of time zones
recognized by Java or .NET run time. Copying the list and using an
automatic line numbering yielded something like 563 different time
zones in the list.
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Lin Sims <ljsims -dot- ml -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> If you had a choice of selecting a timezone from a list sorted by
> location name or GMT offset, which would be easier for you to use?
> Assume that you will not have be able change the sorting order as you
> please (and acknowledging that many or maybe all OSs sort by GMT
> offset).
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Lin Sims
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