Support more timezones

[dbernheisel]

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Currently this only supports US timezones. It would be great to parse more timezones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_zone_abbreviations

[katafrakt]

I could to that, I think. Do you mean to add all zones from the list? What about duplicate abbreviations, such as AMT?

[dbernheisel]

Doesn't have to be all of them, but as many as you can manage. If you're going to choose some, I'd chose timezones that have more population.

For duplicate timezones, I think it'd be safest to not parse those since can be ambiguous, and maybe a future PR can provide an option to specify the timezone.

Here are the duplicates that I see:

• AMT
• ACT = OK to parse as Acre Time, not ASEAN Common Time since that's unofficial.
• AST
• BST (aww man.. )
• CDT is already parsed as Central Daylight Time, not Cuba Daylight Time
• CST is already parsed as Central Standard Time, not China Standard Time nor Cuba Standard Time.
• ECT
• GST
• IST
• LHST
• MST is already parsed as Mountain Standard Time, not Malaysia Standard Time.
• SST

[dbernheisel]

Heads up, there is some logic to determine a timezone abbreviation vs AM/PM, which may complicate things for timezones with the letter M as a second letter. If you want to skip those, that's ok with me and we get follow-up in a later PR to cover those.