[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #6285: Choose timezone without doing math

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#6285: Choose timezone without doing math
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 Reporter:  markjaquith     |       Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  enhancement     |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  low             |   Milestone:  2.6      
Component:  Administration  |     Version:  2.5      
 Severity:  minor           |    Keywords:           
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 Now that we have timezone offsets hardcoded (dropdown list), we could now
 take things a step further and allow people to choose their local time
 from the dropdown.

 Current:

  1. Look at UTC.
  1. Look at current time
  1. Calculate difference
  1. Find that difference in the dropdown list

 Proposed:

  1. Look at current time
  1. Find that time in the dropdown list

 I actually started coding this at one point, but was bamboozled by the
 plethora of crazy one-quarter timezone offsets in the world.  But now
 that's how we're doing that, it seems to be an idea worth proposing.

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