On 7/10/07, Tim Klein <tkpublic@timklein.fastmail.fm> wrote:

I'm helping to write an application that needs a menu for the user to choose what time zone they live in. With ~400 time zones in the database, that'd be a pretty daunting pull-down menu.

You will find this menu in quite a few places. Generally people don't have a problem identifying their geographical location - which is what this list shows. To simplify the menu, get the user to first choose a continent (eg. "Australia" or "Europe") then a region from a smaller list. You could also move the most common selections to the top of the list. Regards, Eric Ulevik