Simplify/Rework the timezone picker [#197442]

The timezone picker is too busy and overwhelming, as reported by some users at [1]. Additionally, it's confusing because the timezone's name is unknown.

It was suggested to use a pulldown-menu with different time zones, in an ordering like /usr/share/zoneinfo has on Unix/Linux systems (Asia/Tokyo, Europe/Berlin, America/Los_Angeles). My personal suggestion is to use two select menus with about 5 or 6 rows. The left one should be filled with regions (Asia, Europe, America etc.) enabling the right one with its own cities/regions (Tokyo, Berlin, Los Angeles for example). You can find an example at the ATI/AMD download page for display drivers [2].

Maybe it's already too late for Drupal 6 so feel free to change the version to 7-dev.

[1] http://groups.drupal.org/node/7043
[2] http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

Comments

Comment #1

webchick

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commented 3 December 2007 at 19:18

Title:

Simplify/Rework the timezone picker

» GHOP #48 (2): Simplify/Rework the timezone picker

Comment #2

webchick

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commented 3 December 2007 at 19:19

Title:

GHOP #48 (2): Simplify/Rework the timezone picker

» Simplify/Rework the timezone picker

Oh nevermind. :) I see what you're doing -- you're creating issues for all the things that don't have one yet.

Unmarking as a GHOP task. Sorry for the confusion!

Comment #3

gábor hojtsy

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commented 4 December 2007 at 12:11

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6.x-dev

» 7.x-dev

I think this is too late for Drupal 6, especially, that Drupal 6 still does no moving of daylight saving times. KarenS has some work done on this using the PHP date objects, which are available since PHP 5.2, which is planned to be a requirement for Drupal 7. Otherwise giving the impression that we actually set for time zones in regions and cities is not really good, because we actually set timezone offsets, which need manual modification each time daylight savings time differences are observed.