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stevelacey / iana-to-activerecord-bullshit-timezone-mapping.py
Last active December 11, 2024 01:46
Zendesk timezones are represented by friendly names that map to tz database names. For example, an API request returns "Eastern Time (US & Canada)" instead of "America/New_York". You can map the friendly names to the tz database names by referencing the Constants > Mapping section of the Ruby on Rails TimeZone object doc. https://developer.zende…
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Zendesk timezones are represented by friendly names that map to tz database names.
For example, an API request returns "Eastern Time (US & Canada)" instead of "America/New_York".
You can map the friendly names to the tz database names by referencing the Constants > Mapping
section of the Ruby on Rails TimeZone object doc.
https://developer.zendesk.com/rest_api/docs/core/users#time-zone