Feature request: alter the package to make the field an actual foreign key so it works with autocomplete in the admin UI #147
Description
Perhaps at least make this an optional feature, if not completely replacing the current design of just reading a system tz database.
The reason I request this is because in the admin UI, the list of timezones is a very lengthy dropdown menu, where I would like to be able to make this field an autocomplete field in the admin UI, so that, e.g., I can just start typing "New York" and then the UI will automatically filter out all of the irrelevant timezones, and I can more quickly pick the zone I am after, instead of haphazardly scrolling down a long list, where I might miss something if I blink.
However, the autocomplete admin option only seems to work on foreign key and many-to-many fields.
If you gave the us the option of persisting the data as a foreign key relation, maybe you could create a a management command to loop through the system database and read it into a new table for a model in this package, then dump a fixture, and have a migration to load that fixture whenever we install or update this package. I really don't know.
I don't know how often the IANA tz database is really likely to change in the future but maybe a management command would make it easy to update the packaged fixture for future releases of the package, if it were ever necessary to reflect new timezones.