[TZInfo-users] more generic names?

[Philip Ross]

On 23/10/2007, Sanjay Vakil <svakil at gmail.com> wrote:
> > There is no link from a timezone to the country or countries that use
> > it. You could use the information available through the Country class
> > to build such an index though.
>
> This is the bit I couldn't figure out.  Could you elucidate?

The following code will give you a hash mapping timezone identifiers
to the country that uses that timezone.

TZInfo::Country.all.inject({}) do |zones,country|
  country.zone_identifiers.each {|zone_id| zones[zone_id] = country}
  zones
end

The hash won't contain every timezone - just those that are defined as
part of a country.

Phil

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Phil Ross
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