Sorting TimeZone

[Wojtek]

Eric Sosman wrote :

You, I guess, will bemoan the impossibility
of what the rest of us are doing ...

Now you are being insulting.

Why?

 

[Dr J R Stockton]

How would you sort timezones?

I am trying to sort them according to their offset from UTC. I cannot
use a TreeMap because there are many timezones with the same offset,
which of course over-writes the previously put timezone.

There are only about 30 Time Zones, since by definition a Time Zone
consists of all places where the local Winter Time has the same
difference from GMT - see a Dictionary, such as
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/time_zone>
<http://www.chambersharrap.co.uk/chambers/features/chref/chref.py/main?t
itle=21st&query=time+zone>
<http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/time+zone>.

Time Zoning is not affected by Summer Time, except in the opinion of the
semi-literates who write operating systems and suchlike.