Timezone chooser dialog artificially limits number of files that can be selected

[spacelama]

I'm trying to choose UTC to display a particular map. The obvious way to do this is to go into Settings->Set timezone, but the file chooser that comes up displays only a partial subset of files in any one zoneinfo directory, to the point where whole swathes of the world (and Etc/UTC) are not able to be selected.

Looking at the code, I just ask "why?"

tim/prune/function/settings/SelectTimezoneFunction.java:

            // second list for offsets
            _listBoxes[LIST_OFFSETS] = new CombinedListAndModel(1);
            _listBoxes[LIST_OFFSETS].setMaxNumEntries(24);
            _listBoxes[LIST_OFFSETS].addListSelectionListener(new ListListener(LIST_OFFSETS));

            // third list for groups
            _listBoxes[LIST_GROUPS] = new CombinedListAndModel(2);
            _listBoxes[LIST_GROUPS].setMaxNumEntries(20);
            _listBoxes[LIST_GROUPS].addListSelectionListener(new ListListener(LIST_GROUPS));

            // fourth list for names
            _listBoxes[LIST_NAMES] = new CombinedListAndModel(3);
            _listBoxes[LIST_NAMES].setMaxNumEntries(20);
            _listBoxes[LIST_NAMES].addListSelectionListener(new ListListener(LIST_NAMES));

[activityworkshop]

You're right, it doesn't work very well for "Etc". The problem is the "setMaxNumEntries(24)" with the assumption that when you choose a region (like Europe, or Asia, or America), then fewer than 24 timezones will be available within that region. This isn't true for "Etc", unfortunately. Clearly not a region I use very often.

Thanks for reporting this, this will be fixed in the next release.