Change presentation of timezone times

[barbeau]

Currently, the presentation of time zones in the marker balloons, trip selection spinner, and written itinerary look like this:

If we stick with GMT presentation, we should display timezones like "GMT-2".

However, we may want to change to abbreviations of the timezone names, as shown here:
http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/

In the U.S., at least, I think the typical traveler would understand the timezone abbreviations (e.g., EST or EDT) instead of GMT+/- X. Any thoughts on other countries?

After more thought, though, and after looking at Google Maps, I think that we should probably drop the timezone abbreviation altogether from the marker balloon and trip selection spinner, since the user will likely assume that the trip takes place in local time. We can keep the timezone in the intinerary, since we have more room there, and that gives clarification if the user has any doubts.

@vreixo I'm going to do the release now without this change, and we can work on this for the next release.

[vreixo]

@barbeau agreed that there is room for improvement on this part and that
this is not a deal breaker at the moment :-).

Btw. I'm not sure if in Europe people is very used to timezone names, for
example it's very strange to see CEST written here.
On 11 Set, 2014 19:53, "Sean Barbeau" [email protected] wrote:

Currently, the presentation of time zones in the marker balloons, trip
selection spinner, and written itinerary look like this:

[image: otpandroid_gmttimes]
https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/928045/4238722/50408be8-39db-11e4-908e-ce315bf6905a.png

If we stick with GMT presentation, we should display timezones like
"GMT-2".

However, we may want to change to abbreviations of the timezone names, as
shown here:
http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/

In the U.S., at least, I think the typical traveler would understand the
timezone abbreviations (e.g., EST or EDT) instead of GMT+/- X. Any thoughts
on other countries?

After more thought, though, and after looking at Google Maps
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/29.7384925,-95.3303826/29.6727151,-95.3524415/@29.7024846,-95.3784197,13z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m4!4m3!1m0!1m0!3e3,
I think that we should probably drop the timezone abbreviation altogether
from the marker balloon and trip selection spinner, since the user will
likely assume that the trip takes place in local time. We can keep the
timezone in the intinerary, since we have more room there, and that gives
clarification if the user has any doubts.

@vreixo https://github.com/vreixo I'm going to do the release now
without this change, and we can work on this for the next release.

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