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Full list of timezones
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Duplicate timezones #28

Closed GaikwadPratik closed 5 years ago

GaikwadPratik commented 5 years ago

Some of the places in the json file are placed in different timezones. Most of them are European places. One such instance is:

{
    "value": "Greenwich Mean Time",
    "abbr": "GMT",
    "offset": 0,
    "isdst": false,
    "text": "(UTC) Edinburgh, London",
    "utc": [
      "Europe/Isle_of_Man",
      "Europe/Guernsey",
      "Europe/Jersey",
      "Europe/London"
    ]
  },
  {
    "value": "British Summer Time",
    "abbr": "BST",
    "offset": 1,
    "isdst": true,
    "text": "(UTC+01:00) Edinburgh, London",
    "utc": [
      "Europe/Isle_of_Man",
      "Europe/Guernsey",
      "Europe/Jersey",
      "Europe/London"
    ]
  }

Is this intentional? Because that is breaking in UI, when I am trying to map to dropdown.

dmfilipenko commented 5 years ago

@GaikwadPratik will take a look

dmfilipenko commented 5 years ago

@GaikwadPratik Seems it's valid according to https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/gmt https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/bst

GaikwadPratik commented 5 years ago

oh boy, European countries/territories using BST in the summer and GMT in the winter

This means that the consumer application will have to keep track of summer and winter in those areas. People are certainly not making it easier to use different timezones are they? Also need to find more such duplicates areas and find more information about them and handle those or use moment along with this library.

Thank you for helping here!