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On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:12 AM, Lin Sims <ljsims -dot- ml -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> If you had a choice of selecting a timezone from a list sorted by
> location name or GMT offset, which would be easier for you to use?
> Assume that you will not have be able change the sorting order as you
> please (and acknowledging that many or maybe all OSs sort by GMT
> offset).
I'd mildly prefer sort by offset and give city names, but sorting a short list
alphabetically and giving the offset is OK too.
A long list sorted by name is a disaster. e.g. Ubuntu install has about a
hundred cities, sorted by continent. I have to scroll past "Americas" and
"Africa" to get to "Asia". Yuuuuuch!
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