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https://www.iana.org/time-zones https://www.iana.org/time-zones "America/Chicago" is a standard timezone name.
by gohrt 11y ago
https://www.iana.org/time-zones https://www.iana.org/time-zones
"America/Chicago" is a standard timezone name.
- kelnos 11y agoRight, but very few people living in the continental US[0], when presented with a timezone dropdown, are going to expect to see anything but Eastern, Central, Mountain, or Pacific. If they do see a list that has city names, they'll be confused that their city isn't mentioned, or that they're expected to pick a city that's in their timezone but possibly geographically distant. Personally, I (living in SF), use the "PST8PDT" named timezone; it just makes more sense to me than "America/Los Angeles", which is 400+ miles away from me (even though historically we've always had the same time as LA... as far as I know). [0] Yes, there are a few places in the continental US that don't follow the "normal" 4 timezones and their DST schedules, so there are exceptions; specifically calling out those cities/locales is necessary, at least in those cases.
- Zarel 11y agoI just googled "Omaha, NE timezone", and "America/Chicago" was not anywhere in the results. http://google.com/search?q=Omaha,+NE+timezone http://google.com/search?q=Omaha,+NE+timezone It may be a standard timezone name, but it's not a very user-friendly one.