[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #16993: wp-mail.php doesn't account for half-hour and quarter-hour timezones.

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#16993: wp-mail.php doesn't account for half-hour and quarter-hour timezones.
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 Reporter:  neoscrib       |      Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)   |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal         |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Blog by Email  |    Version:  3.1
 Severity:  trivial        |   Keywords:
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 To reproduce the problem, install Wordpress and set it to post by email.
 Send a post from an email address which is configured to use a half-hour
 or quarter-hour timezone (like Afghanistan, +0430).

 wp-mail.php calculates the timezone by multiplying the timezone offset by
 36. This works fine for whole-hour timezones (Pacific Time -0800, -800 *
 36 = -28800 seconds). For half-hour and quarter-hour time zones this does
 not work (Afghanistan +0430, 430 * 36 = 15480, should be 16200). The
 reason this happens is because an hour has 60 minutes as opposed to 100
 minutes. 430 / 100 = 4.3 hours, not 4.5 hours. 450 * 36 result in 16200
 minutes, but timezones are represented as hours and minutes, not
 fractional hours.

 This results in posts that are posted via email from a half-hour or
 quarter-hour timezone to be posted in the future or in the past from when
 it was actually posted.

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