Translating Rails Timezones

Question

We internationalized our site months ago, but forgot one part: The drop down where a user picks their timezone.

How do you translate the following line:

Answer 1

I had trouble translating the time zones with .'s in them, like "St. Petersburg"

"translation missing: en, time_zones, St, Petersburg"

I removed the .'s from the keys, and changed this:

translated_name = I18n.t(name, :scope => :time_zones, :default => name)

to:

translated_name = I18n.t(name.gsub(".", ""), :scope => :time_zones, :default => name)

There are four keys with .'s:

• Cape Verde Is.
• St. Petersburg
• Solomon Is.
• Marshall Is.