More cities and GMT-style options in time zone selection

[deepad]

Title:
More cities and GMT-style options in time zone selection

Area:
posting

Summary:
The drop-down options right now to set your time zone offer an extremely limited number of Continent/City options to choose from. This should be increased and diversified to accomodate users from all parts of the world.

Description:
So in changing my time zone to get GMT + 5:30, I discovered that the only option I had was to select "Asia/Kolkata". No mention of Mumbai or Delhi or Bangalore or any of the other big cities, and worse, no GMT option.

This requires people not living in the US to have to look up which of the small and randomly chosen list of cities their location matches in the time zone department.

So I would suggest that the system either be changed to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), or else if the present Continent/City one remains an option, make it Continent/Country for all nations that have one time zone. Or if Continent/City must be kept, add to the number of cities represented.

Poll #4509 More cities and GMT-style options in time zone selection

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 64

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Should be implemented as-is.
52 (81.2%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
8 (12.5%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
4 (6.2%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)