Timezones in picker are not well known and hard to pick the right one

[jnurthen]

Consider using more commonly chosen timezone names so people can find them more easily. There are over 400 Timezones to choose from in the current picker.

Compare to Outlook's implementation:

• Outlook provides a choice of 150ish which while a lot is an improvement.
• Outlook also sorts these by UTC offset which makes it easier to find the timezone desired
• Outlook also allows you to pick a timezone by searching for a city. Searching for Boston for instance will pick "(UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)"

Maybe just adding a Get My Timezone button and using the geo-location APIs would be enough to solve this for most users?

[swickr]

The picker currently does a string match and filters the list accordingly. That seems useful to retain, in addition to sorting by UTC offset. If UTC offset were added then presumably typing "-5" would be sufficient to identify a city in the same timezone as Boston.