[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #4480: Event API returns date/time information without timezone

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#4480: Event API returns date/time information without timezone
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 Reporter:  Rarst        |       Owner:  iandunn
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  accepted
 Priority:  high         |   Milestone:
Component:  Events API   |  Resolution:
 Keywords:               |
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Changes (by iandunn):

 * owner:  (none) => iandunn
 * priority:  low => high
 * status:  new => accepted


Comment:

 This is worse now that we have lots of online events, where people can
 easily attend from outside the local timezone.

 It's even worse than that for [https://www.meetup.com/learn-wordpress-
 discussions/ the learn.w.org discussion groups], which are ''only''
 online, and not tied to any particular geographic location. Meetup.com
 still requires groups to pick a location, though, so it has San Francisco
 listed. So users all over the world see those events in Pacific Daylight
 Time.

 Luckily, @ryelle already added a UTF offset column in r9632, for
 [https://make.wordpress.org/community/events/online the online events
 page].

 I think we can just use that to add `date_utc` and `end_date_utc` fields
 to the API endpoint. I'll look into that.

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