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The list of timezones is rather long, lots of duplication, and not very friendly to programmers let alone end-users. Is there a way to to shorten the list to something friendlier and sufficient for 80%+ of users? But then how shall one decide which are the popular Tz? The list in Windows seems pretty good, but I'm not sure if that's a good list to model after. It is interesting because DST is optional, is that why the list can be that short? Someone worked out the tz equivalents here . I'm in Pacific Daylight Time (PDT). JS's getTimezoneOffset() returns 420 ==> offset -7. If I use the timezones list above, how would one tell it's US/Pacific (-8)? Furthermore, what are the popular names for timezones? US/Pacific or Canada/Pacific sure sounds friendlier then America/Los_Angeles or America/Vancouver . Lastly, how are the 2 timezones above different? Can they be safely grouped together and just use America/Los_Angeles in the app? How shall one group timezones together? Thank you!
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