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Time Zone Convertor by city #17013

Open EroticBananaz opened 2 years ago

EroticBananaz commented 2 years ago

Description of the new feature / enhancement

Allow us to convert time zones in specific cities. ex:

20 :35:28 - UTC-07:00 Phoenix, Arizona (most, United States)

Scenario when this would be used?

I speak to people all over the country and I deal with appointment times so this would be absolutely amazing for me. I am sure many users planning to use this feature for work could benefit. Not to mention (excuse my ignorance if I am incorrect) it seems like a relatively easy feature to implement! :)

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crutkas commented 2 years ago

I actually think for something like this, cities is going to be hard. With the current implementation, we can be naïve. Where if a city changes time zones due to larger rules, we would need to be aware. We would have to proactively query stuff versus just leverage the OS APIs.

Then it also goes to what scope of size of city and not to mention different ways to spell the city depending on language. I wonder if there may even be geopolitical stuff that would need to be accounted for as well.

We can keep it open but i think this is one of those "it looks simple" but really is far more complex.

EroticBananaz commented 2 years ago

I wonder if you could pull from the baked in Excel database that kinda does the same thing.

Anyways, thanks for the response. Pretty cool.