All good points, but FWIW re: > I don't think I've ever seen time zone selection available as freeform text vs, say, a dropdown, so that seems fairly rare. HT

All good points, but FWIW re: > I don't think I've ever seen time zone selection available as freeform text vs, say, a dropdown, so that seems fairly rare. HTML dropdowns are freeform text when submitted. This is sometimes interesting, and occasionally important.