May 22, 2013
5:37 p.m.
On Wed, May 22, 2013, at 12:37, Steve Allen wrote:
I do not see kre's proposal as a great effort. Technically it is no effort. Yes, bureaucratically it is effort, but as kre points out, international standards cannot solve the technical problems, and technical problems have always been the focus of tz.
User experience is (sort of) a technical problem. Requiring the user to select from a list of 418 time zones without providing any way to narrow it down (or from a list of 148 after only a mediocre way of narrowing it down) is a poor user experience.