add full IANA time zone support

Gemfile

@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ gem 'activeadmin', github: 'gregbell/active_admin'
 gem 'chronic'
 gem 'non-stupid-digest-assets'
 gem 'em-http-request'
+gem 'tzinfo'
+gem 'tzinfo-data'
 
 # to use debugger
 # gem 'ruby-debug'

Gemfile.lock

@@ -322,6 +322,7 @@ GEM
       multi_json (~> 1.0)
       simple_oauth (~> 0.2)
     tzinfo (0.3.39)
+    tzinfo-data (1.2013.9)
     uglifier (2.4.0)
       execjs (>= 0.3.0)
       json (>= 1.8.0)
@@ -386,6 +387,8 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   therubyracer
   tweetstream
   twitter_oauth!
+  tzinfo
+  tzinfo-data
   uglifier
   webrat
   will_paginate (~> 3.0.pre2)

app/controllers/application_controller.rb

@@ -315,7 +315,11 @@ class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
     # set timezone correctly
     def set_time_zone
       if params[:timezone].present?
-        Time.zone = ActiveSupport::TimeZone::MAPPING.key(params[:timezone])
+        begin
+          Time.zone = TZInfo::Timezone.get(params[:timezone])
+        rescue
+          Time.zone = 'UTC'
+        end
       elsif params[:offset].present?
         Time.zone = set_timezone_from_offset(params[:offset])
       elsif current_user.present?

app/views/docs/index.html.erb

@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@
     <br><br>
 <pre>GET <span class="str"><%= @ssl_api_domain %>channels/9/fields/1/last.json?timezone=<span class="customcode">America%2FNew_York</span></span></pre>
     <br>
+    The most common time zone identifiers are listed below.  ThingSpeak supports all <a href="http://www.iana.org/time-zones" target="_blank">IANA Time Zone Database</a>
+    identifers; a <a href="http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/xtra/tzdatepick.html" target="_blank">human-readable list</a> is also available.
+    <br><br>
     <table class="table table-striped table-bordered table-condensed">
       <tr>
         <th>Identifier</th>