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Nov 18, 2016 10:38 PM
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Why do they feel that it's necessary to put 100+ time zones in the options? It's super annoying to try and find the places they put down for your time zone, I don't want to scroll through the giant list of places to try to find one that's in my time zone. There are 24(ish) time zones, would it not be easier to just put those in there? It. Is. Just. So. Unnecessary.
Nov 19, 2016 1:58 AM
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Nov 19, 2016 7:17 AM
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Why not ?
I mean it would be a change from not fixing but fucking up things that are or are not broken. (forum search, user profile pages with the "more" arrow)

But this should be in suggestions, not support.
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Nov 20, 2016 3:17 PM
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Landofsquiggles said:
There are 24(ish) time zones
No, there're not.
Nov 20, 2016 9:50 PM
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Well yes, there are currently 39 time zones in use.. I was generalizing because I didn't know exactly how many 30-45 minute ones there were. 24(ish) is valid enough.
Nov 21, 2016 1:42 AM
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Landofsquiggles said:
Why do they feel that it's necessary to put 100+ time zones in the options? It's super annoying to try and find the places they put down for your time zone, I don't want to scroll through the giant list of places to try to find one that's in my time zone. There are 24(ish) time zones, would it not be easier to just put those in there? It. Is. Just. So. Unnecessary.

Many if not most people don't know what their time zone is called. They would first have to google it, then still go through a list of the time zones here to find the correct one. And I think spotting the correct time zone in the list is a bit harder than a city name.

The way it is now, the list might be longer but I think it allows users to choose their correct time zone more conveniently because it lists several major cities in each time zone and most people will find the correct one without having to do extra research.
Nov 21, 2016 8:33 AM
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Landofsquiggles said:
Well yes, there are currently 39 time zones in use.. I was generalizing because I didn't know exactly how many 30-45 minute ones there were. 24(ish) is valid enough.


You've also got things like daylight saving time to factor in. Different places enter or leave daylight saving time on different days, some go forwards at the same time of year as others go backwards and others still don't do it at all.
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