pytz has so many timezones!

[mensanator at aol.com]

On Oct 8, 3:23 pm, "J. Clifford Dyer" <j... at sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 01:12:32PM -0700, mensana... at aol.com wrote regarding Re: pytz has so many timezones!:
>
> >  [ I wrote ]
> > > Reducing them to a single time zone will result in aberrant functionality in one or more locales.
>
> > I would hardly think that's an issue on the user registration
> > form the OP is trying to create.
>
> You don't think that it's an issue that the OPs users will complain about their time being inaccurate?  If I register in what we in the US call Eastern Time Zone, I don't want to have to switch to Atlantic time zone just because the form designer couldn't be bothered to include a time zone that actually matched the function of the clocks in my area.  

That wasn't my point. If you know you're in GMT-5 and your computer
knows you're in GMT-5, why do you have to peruse a list of 400
choices,
most of which don't match your GMT offset?

>
> Pedantry about the definition of a time zone is not going to win you points with irate users.  

Fine. Then make the user scroll through 400 choices. See how many
points that gets you.

>
> Cliff