TimeZonePicker VS Chronology

I needed to do a simple time zone selector, but there just isn't an easy way to do it apart from showing a 500-items-long TimeZone.getAvailableIDs() at the user in a dropdown. I had wanted something like this, but for Android, and it just doesn't seem to exist. So I need to do my own fuzzy text search or deal with some API? Maybe there are other options? Why does it have to be so complicated??? [/rant]

You shoudl take a look at the libray Time. https://github.com/davedelong/time

In general you should let the user’s locale determine the specifics of formatting dates. But if you need a specific format you can use the formatting methods here, or use clock.thisMinute().firstInstant.date to drop down to a Date object and use your own DateFormatter instance. But if you use the latter, be sure you set up the date formatter with the same time zone as the Absolute instance that clock.thisMinute() returns.