The problem to me seems like they are only offering political / locational zones. It does not seem like it would be a significant step backwards to offer an option to set your time zone to a manual fixed offset, which is all the people on the tracker seem to want.
Most people get timezone set correctly automatically to their current location, including folks in Iceland. Specialist users who want to do something odd might discover the unloved system settings widget (it's missing on a lot of phones anyway) and want that to cover their use case, which it couldn't without getting too complex for most users. The specialist timezones are available however, they just need an app like timezone changer to pick them.
I want advocating switching the main time zone selector over to a text box that says, "Enter a valid POSIX time zone string", I was suggesting that at the bottom of the list of selectable time zones (which you only reach generally if you turn off automatic time zone selection) there be a button that says, "choose a fixed offset". Seems like a no brainer.
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The problem to me seems like they are only offering political / locational zones. It does not seem like it would be a significant step backwards to offer an option to set your time zone to a manual fixed offset, which is all the people on the tracker seem to want.
Most people get timezone set correctly automatically to their current location, including folks in Iceland. Specialist users who want to do something odd might discover the unloved system settings widget (it's missing on a lot of phones anyway) and want that to cover their use case, which it couldn't without getting too complex for most users. The specialist timezones are available however, they just need an app like timezone changer to pick them.
I want advocating switching the main time zone selector over to a text box that says, "Enter a valid POSIX time zone string", I was suggesting that at the bottom of the list of selectable time zones (which you only reach generally if you turn off automatic time zone selection) there be a button that says, "choose a fixed offset". Seems like a no brainer.