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Poor Design Choice of the Day

What would possess someone to make a drop downlist to choose a time zone that looks like this:

What time zone would you choose if you were in Louisville, KY?

Published Sep 12 2003, 12:36 PM by Phil Scott

Comments

 

Joe Grossberg said:

I think it's similarly bad when people put EST. Your average users doesn't know that's their time zone.

P.S. New York, incidentally.
September 12, 2003 1:18 PM
 

Dylan Greene said:

I know my time zone where I live, but not always when I travel. My cell phone automagically knows the local time, I wish my laptop and Pocket PC did the same.
September 12, 2003 2:00 PM
 

Phil Scott said:

Good point on the travel thing. But I would be far less likely to get the correct time zone from this list if I was traveling I think.

Indianapolis is basically north of Louisville (ok, a bit to the west). We have a problem here at work when people are signing up for the service that this list appears in choosing Indianapolis or wondering why Louisville isn't in the list.

I'm surprised how many people don't realize Louisville is in the eastern time zone, and so is New York. Just seems like even if you know your time zone, you have to think too much.

How about a picture, ala old school Win95?
September 12, 2003 2:04 PM
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