{"id":229,"date":"2006-04-21T10:42:22","date_gmt":"2006-04-20T23:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2006\/04\/21\/choosing-timezones\/"},"modified":"2006-04-21T10:42:22","modified_gmt":"2006-04-20T23:42:22","slug":"choosing-timezones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2006\/04\/21\/choosing-timezones\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing Timezones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All timezone applications require you to specify what city you are in (where &#8220;all&#8221; is carefully defined as all of the ones I have had to deal with and that I can remember.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never understood why you select the <em>city<\/em> rather than the <em>state, province or country<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The timezones aren&#8217;t set on a city-basis, so why do we specify that? Why should people in Wollongong need to lie and say they live in Sydney, rather than specifying New South Wales? Why should I have to know the capital city of Ohio to know what time it is there?<\/p>\n<p>I feel I am missing some usability issue here that explains the user interface choice, but I just can&#8217;t see it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All timezone applications require you to specify what city you are in. I&#8217;ve never understood why you select the <em>city<\/em> rather than the <em>state, province or country<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,21,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insufficiently-advanced-technology","category-observation","category-software-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}