Sorting TimeZone

Eric Sosman wrote :
> You, I guess, will bemoan the impossibility
> of what the rest of us are doing ...

Now you are being insulting.

Why?

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Wojtek

Wojtek

In comp.lang.java.programmer message <>,
Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:09:42, Wojtek <> posted:
>How would you sort timezones?
>
>I am trying to sort them according to their offset from UTC. I cannot
>use a TreeMap because there are many timezones with the same offset,
>which of course over-writes the previously put timezone.


There are only about 30 Time Zones, since by definition a Time Zone
consists of all places where the local Winter Time has the same
difference from GMT - see a Dictionary, such as
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/time_zone>
<http://www.chambersharrap.co.uk/cham...href.py/main?t
itle=21st&query=time+zone>
<http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/time+zone>.

Time Zoning is not affected by Summer Time, except in the opinion of the
semi-literates who write operating systems and suchlike.

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