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Comment by simonw

5 months ago

My prize for worst time zone UI still goes to Google calendar.

If you want to create an event in a different time zone from your default the select picker it gives you is utterly incomprehensible.

I can't even find the time zone for New York/US eastern in it!

Screenshot here: https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2024/google-calendar...

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arccy  5 months ago

isn't it at GMT-4 Eastern Time - New York?

  • simonw  5 months ago

    Here's the search results you get if you type "eastern" in that interface: https://gist.github.com/simonw/c2a73e40bbc87b8c25333207c551f...

    Typing "New York" gets zero results.

    Even knowing the exact name of the timezone I want I still can't find it in that UI!

    • arccy  5 months ago

      At least for me, since it's ordered by offset, i just scroll to the approximate offset rather than try to type.

      On android, "eastern" similarly results in a mess of results (but eastern is a bad name anyway...), "new york" does find it.

    • yencabulator  5 months ago

      The desktop web version seems to have no type-in search functionality.

      In the Android app typing "new y" gives

        Eastern Daylight Time
  18:30  GMT-4
  United States, *New Y*ork