Time Zone Picker In XPages?

Question

When adding a field to a form in Lotus Notes, one of the possible types is that of "Time Zone". When viewed in the Notes client, it is similar in appearance to a combo box where one of the choices looks like this: (UTC+01:00) Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna

When selected, it displays like this: GMT+01:00

And when saved, it's stored like this: "Z=-1$DO=1$DL=3 -1 1 10 -1 1$ZX=103$ZN=W. Europe"

I'm creating an XPage front-end for the Resource form in a modified Resource Reservation template, so I need a control like this in XPages, but don't see one. How do I get/create a control like a Time Zone field?

I don't remember where I got it but I used a ZULU timezone picker based on jQuery to perform an operation like this - and it stored the data in the format you are describing. Try searching for "zulu timezone picker jquery". Sorry for not having a working solution yet... — Oliver Busse
Thanks, but the only things I could find either first drills down to a country or uses an image map. While that is certainly useful, it won't help me here. — Timothy Briley

Paul Stephen Withers Paul Stephen Withers · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-16T09:45:24

I'm not sure if you've seen this OpenNTF Project for Resource Reservations Extended, but it may give an idea (bear in mind the code gets very deep in Java). The selection and display do what you need in a combo box, the save then converts and stores the timezone in Notes format.

Time Zone Picker In XPages?

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