Profile - Copy pasting automatic selected timezone shows no result (tested with Aisa/Calcutta)

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Action Performed:

1. Open the app
2. Open settings->profile->timezone
3. Unselect 'Automatically determine location'
4. Open timezone
5. Copy the timezone
6. Empty the search and paste, observe that no results are displayed

Expected Result:

App should display results according to search

Actual Result:

App displays no results if we copy automatic detected location, empty search and paste to search the location

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

• Android / native
• Android / Chrome
• iOS / native
• iOS / Safari
• MacOS / Chrome / Safari
• MacOS / Desktop

Version Number: v1.3.60-1

Reproducible in staging?: Y

Reproducible in production?: Y

If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail:

Email or phone of affected tester (no customers):

Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856

Notes/Photos/Videos: Any additional supporting documentation

no.results.on.copy.paste.timezone.mp4

Recording.1405.mp4

Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:

Issue reported by: @@dhanashree-sawant

Slack conversation: https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C049HHMV9SM/p1692721456621009

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[GItGudRatio]

Proposal

Please re-state the problem that we are trying to solve in this issue.

This is a case where the timezone Asia/Calcutta is not shown.

What is the root cause of that problem?

This issue does not have anything to do with the copy pasting mechanism, rather the timezone "Asia/Calcutta" is missing from the list of timezones in TIMEZONES.js, which makes it such that the timezone is simply not present in the list.

What changes do you think we should make in order to solve the problem?

Firstly, we should add Asia/Calcutta to the timezone array.

Next, to solve this on a broader level, we need to synchronize the list of timezones used on the backend that automatically select the timezone and the list of available timezones on the frontend.

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

N/A

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @maddylewis (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details.

[melvin-bot]

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[bernhardoj]

We already have Asia/Kolkata which is the new name for Calcutta in the timezone list.

App/src/TIMEZONES.js

Line 249 in 9b48540

'Asia/Kolkata',

We are currently using moment to guess the user timezone (which returns the old name) but it will be replaced in this PR. I don't know how accurate it will be with the new approach, but I guess we can hold this one until the mentioned PR is resolved.

[melvin-bot]

@maddylewis Uh oh! This issue is overdue by 2 days. Don't forget to update your issues!

[maddylewis]

holding for - #26248

[maddylewis]

ok this is merged - #26248

let's see if i can repro now.

[melvin-bot]

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[maddylewis]

will test today!

[maddylewis]

neither of the unexpected behaviors mentioned on this issue are occurring now. i think we're good to close this one out.