TimeZones in Java

Question

I am allowing users on my web app to schedule events based on time zones of their choice.

I want to present a good list of time zones to the end user and then conver

Answer 1

The list of timezones is very application and locale specific. Only you know what zones are most applicable to your users. We actually have different lists for different regions.

Here is our list for US users for your reference,

    "Pacific/Midway",
    "US/Hawaii",
    "US/Alaska",
    "US/Pacific",
    "America/Tijuana",
    "US/Arizona",
    "America/Chihuahua",
    "US/Mountain",
    "America/Guatemala",
    "US/Central",
    "America/Mexico_City",
    "Canada/Saskatchewan",
    "America/Bogota",
    "US/Eastern",
    "US/East-Indiana",
    "Canada/Eastern",
    "America/Caracas",
    "America/Manaus",
    "America/Santiago",
    "Canada/Newfoundland",
    "Brazil/East",
    "America/Buenos_Aires",
    "America/Godthab",
    "America/Montevideo",
    "Atlantic/South_Georgia",
    "Atlantic/Azores",
    "Atlantic/Cape_Verde",
    "Africa/Casablanca",
    "Europe/London",
    "Europe/Berlin",
    "Europe/Belgrade",
    "Europe/Brussels",
    "Europe/Warsaw",
    "Africa/Algiers",
    "Asia/Amman",
    "Europe/Athens",
    "Asia/Beirut",
    "Africa/Cairo",
    "Africa/Harare",
    "Europe/Helsinki",
    "Asia/Jerusalem",
    "Europe/Minsk",
    "Africa/Windhoek",
    "Asia/Baghdad",
    "Asia/Kuwait",
    "Europe/Moscow",
    "Africa/Nairobi",
    "Asia/Tbilisi",
    "Asia/Tehran",
    "Asia/Muscat",
    "Asia/Baku",
    "Asia/Yerevan",
    "Asia/Kabul",
    "Asia/Yekaterinburg",
    "Asia/Karachi",
    "Asia/Calcutta",
    "Asia/Colombo",
    "Asia/Katmandu",
    "Asia/Novosibirsk",
    "Asia/Dhaka",
    "Asia/Rangoon",
    "Asia/Bangkok",
    "Asia/Krasnoyarsk",
    "Asia/Hong_Kong",
    "Asia/Irkutsk",
    "Asia/Kuala_Lumpur",
    "Australia/Perth",
    "Asia/Taipei",
    "Asia/Tokyo",
    "Asia/Seoul",
    "Asia/Yakutsk",
    "Australia/Adelaide",
    "Australia/Darwin",
    "Australia/Brisbane",
    "Australia/Sydney",
    "Pacific/Guam",
    "Australia/Hobart",
    "Asia/Vladivostok",
    "Asia/Magadan",
    "Pacific/Auckland",
    "Pacific/Fiji",
    "Pacific/Tongatapu",