[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 sambauers):

 Replying to [comment:73 ryan]:
 > Does auto suggest work only for the English strings?

 No, it will pull suggestions from the english and the translated strings.

 > It seems we should store the zoneinfo string to the DB and not our made
 up string.

 The relationship isn't one to one, so if we store say "Europe/London" the
 user could have initially entered "Cardiff - Wales", "Edinburgh -
 Scotland" or "London - England". Which means we we try to display the
 users initial setting we can only guess as to what they put in there in
 the first place. By storing the english string (not the translated string)
 we can put people back where they were.

 > We should also only show an entry if it is in zoneinfo.  Not all
 zoneinfo installs have everything.  zoneinfo should be authoritative, not
 our array.

 The mappings from the pretty names to zoneinfo are to very safe zoneinfo
 entries which should be in every install. In any case the zoneinfo entry
 that is chosen is always tested for validity.

 > Suggest a tz only if it is in zoneinfo.  Allow someone to input a plain
 tz string not in our list as long as it is in zoneinfo.

 That is possible now... try entering Australia/Sydney, it works.. try
 entering Foo/Bar, it fails.

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