[thesite] timezones

[Matthew Haughey]

At 05:19 PM 8/27/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>I think the bigger question is "Do we want a fixed timezone,
>or do we want it in the timezone of the user (and if so,
>which - the submitting user or the viewing user)?"

FWIW, here's the timezone list we used at Blogger:
http://home.haughey.com/timezones.html

I haven't seen anyone create a generic timezone offset tag at the Allaire 
dev exchange, and figured someday I guess I'd write one.

If evolt's already storing timestamps in GMT, it'd be a simple matter to 
dump this list in a new timezone table, make a TZ field in the user table 
and let them pick from these names in a drop down, storing the appropriate 
timezoneID in this new user table field.

Then maybe cookie or session variable a user with their offset to reduce 
the load on the server when doing   all the time adjustments when 
displaying output?

Matt