#1

In the Twitter “User” object: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/platform-objects/users

The “time_zone” field is using values such as “Pacific Time (US & Canada)”. These appear to be Rails time zone identifiers, such as described here: ActiveSupport::TimeZone

These are not very useful outside of Rails, and have to be translated to their full IANA time zone identifier, such as “America/Los_Angeles” in order to be useful in the vast majority of other platforms and languages.

The Rails MAPPING constant defines the dictionary for translation. I humbly request that in the next version of your API that you expose the translated value, rather than the Rails proprietary identifier.

#2

This was a 1.0 issue. Looks like this was handled in 1.1 with tzinfo_name:

You can close this request. Thanks!

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#3

Thanks for reaching out to us and letting us know this is resolved!

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