[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #3962: WordPress should adjust for DST ("location" appropriate)

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#3962: WordPress should adjust for DST ("location" appropriate)
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 Reporter:  iacas           |        Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  task (blessed)  |       Status:  reopened 
 Priority:  high            |    Milestone:  2.8      
Component:  Administration  |      Version:  2.1.2    
 Severity:  normal          |   Resolution:           
 Keywords:  needs-testing   |  
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Comment(by Otto42):

 Replying to [comment:31 westi]:
 > I guess we also need a way of getting from the current option to a good
 guest for the new one - can this be done easily other wise people may
 trash there timezone accidentally.

 Well, right now, the code that generates the dropdown is intentionally
 ignoring non-location based timezones, although they are usually
 available. For example, in my local installation, PHP returns a list of
 zones named like "Etc/GMT-6". If these are there, it would not be a huge
 stretch to have it default to one of these if no location-aware TZ is
 selected.

 I could also make it display the DST rule for the selected timezone. My
 plugin does this if it detects support for it. It says something similar
 to "This timezone is currently in standard time. This timezone switches to
 daylight savings time on: March 8, 2009 @ 3:00 am CDT" and so forth. Bit
 of feedback to let you know if the location you picked is correct.

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