HTML Select List for All Timezones

Fri, 31 Jan 2020 06:23:05 +0000

HTML Select List for All Timezones

I needed an HTML select for every Timezone and really couldn’t find what I was looking for. Here is an abbreviated version so you know what I’m talking about:

Abbreviated HTML Select of Timezones

A smaller HTML select with timezones which maybe a good starting point in the USA.

<select id="timezone" name="timezone" class="custom-select">
 <option value="Pacific/Honolulu">Pacific/Honolulu GMT-10:00</option>
 <option value="America/Anchorage">America/Anchorage GMT-9:00</option>
 <option value="America/Los_Angeles">America/Los_Angeles GMT-8:00</option>
 <option value="America/Boise">America/Boise GMT-7:00</option>
 <option value="America/Denver">America/Denver GMT-7:00</option>
 <option value="America/Phoenix">America/Phoenix GMT-7:00</option>
 <option value="America/Chicago">America/Chicago GMT-6:00</option>
 <option value="America/Detroit">America/Detroit GMT-5:00</option>
 <option value="America/New_York">America/New_York GMT-5:00</option>
</select>

Abbreviated HTML Select of Timezones in Action

What I especially liked about the value field here is it standard across platforms and programming languages. The reason is because this the value field if from the tz database. Other values you will see for the HTML option have offsets and all sorts of different ideas. These usually fail because when dealing with time one has to account for the dreaded Daylight Savings Time.

Number of Programming Languages

Fri, 21 Sep 2018 09:14:48 +0000

Number of Programming Languages

What are the similarities and differences between spoken languages and programming languages?

What are the effects of having a large number of programming languages?

When I mow the lawn or drive to work I often listen to Podcasts if I don’t listen to audio books. I recently came across a Podcast Freakonomics - Why Don’t We All Speak the Same Language? (Earth 2.0 Series) and being a programmer myself I related the discussion of human languages to programming languages. Here are the points from the Podcast relevant to this dicussion on human languages that I want to use to relate to my view on Programming Languages:

Programming on Lloyd Rochester's Geek Blog

HTML Select List for All Timezones

HTML Select List for All Timezones

Abbreviated HTML Select of Timezones

Abbreviated HTML Select of Timezones in Action

Number of Programming Languages

Number of Programming Languages