Recreating the US/* time zone situation

Re:Recreating the US/* time zone situation by simonw on Sunday September 14, 2025 @01:20AM (#45237626)

My prize for worst time zone UI still goes to Google calendar.

If you want to create an event in a different time zone from your default the select picker it gives you is utterly incomprehensible.

I can't even find the time zone for New York/US eastern in it!

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Re:Recreating the US/* time zone situation by arccy on Sunday September 14, 2025 @04:16AM (#45238361)

isn't it at GMT-4 Eastern Time - New York?

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Re:Recreating the US/* time zone situation by simonw on Sunday September 14, 2025 @07:59AM (#45239175)

Here's the search results you get if you type "eastern" in that interface: https://gist.github.com/simonw/c2a73e40bbc87b8c25333207c551f...

Typing "New York" gets zero results.

Even knowing the exact name of the timezone I want I still can't find it in that UI!

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Re:Recreating the US/* time zone situation by arccy on Sunday September 14, 2025 @02:10PM (#45241981)

At least for me, since it's ordered by offset, i just scroll to the approximate offset rather than try to type.

On android, "eastern" similarly results in a mess of results (but eastern is a bad name anyway...), "new york" does find it.

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Re:Recreating the US/* time zone situation by yencabulator on Sunday September 14, 2025 @06:19PM (#45243830)

The desktop web version seems to have no type-in search functionality.

In the Android app typing "new y" gives

  Eastern Daylight Time
  18:30  GMT-4
  United States, *New Y*ork

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