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

If you need the granularity of choosing exactly how the list would look, I would use the best hard-coded list I could find (this is a good example) and ensure it is displayed and converted as precisely as possible.

Just keep in mind that each one of those 585 time zones does have a semantic meaning (such as DST for example) and users might want to choose the best time zone for them. Although I do agree that list can be much shorter.