pytz has so many timezones!

[andrew clarke]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 12:32:19AM -0700, Sanjay wrote:

> I am using pytz.common_timezones to populate the timezone combo box of
> some user registration form. But as it has so many timezones (around
> 400), it is a bit confusing to the users. Is there a smaller and more
> practical set? If not, some suggestions on how to handle the
> registration form effectively would help me a lot.

Use something like:

for zone in common_timezones:
  continent, region = zone.split('/')

Then have two list boxes, one for the continent and the other for the region.

[Australia              ]

[Melbourne              ]

('Continent' is probably not the right word.)

Regards
Andrew