Document strings returned by getLocalTimezone()

[mleonhard]

The docs for Future<String> getLocalTimezone() say only:

Returns local timezone from the native layer.

I need to know if it returns ambiguous time zone abbreviations like "CST" or excellent tz database names like "America/Chicago".

[thnukid]

Hi @mleonhard,
On Android, I have selected Region "United States" and Time zone "Chicago (GMT-05:00)" in the device settings on the emulator.

_timezone = await FlutterNativeTimezone.getLocalTimezone(); # returns "America/Chicago"

I need to know if it returns ambiguous time zone abbreviations like "CST" or excellent tz database names like "America/Chicago".
To answer your question, the library returns excellent tz database names.

[pinkfish]

For newer android is returns things in IANA format using the ZoneID lookup. The older TimeZone package returns things like CST and PST in some cases, I think those cases are mostly related to running in an emulator though, not seen it return those strings in real settings.

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[tamoyal]

@pinkfish So now this package always returns IANA format? Agree it would be great to document this.