[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #18146: Add user-level timezone setting

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#18146: Add user-level timezone setting
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 Reporter:  RanYanivHartstein  |       Owner:
     Type:  feature request    |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal             |   Milestone:
Component:  Users              |     Version:
 Severity:  normal             |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                     |     Focuses:
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Changes (by rianjs):

 * status:  closed => reopened
 * resolution:  maybelater =>


Comment:

 I was putting the finishing touches on a plugin this morning, and thinking
 about date formatting, and I googled for a good ten minutes before I
 realize that there is ''no user-specific time zone setting'' in WordPress.

 I was flabbergasted: the notion of a "server time" exists, which is used
 as the default for showing the dates and times of posts. But no time zone
 for registered users? That's a big oversight.

 Sure, have a non-UTC fallback "server time" for unregistered readers, but
 the ability for a user to specify what time zone they're in is pretty
 standard across just about every other PHP application I've developed
 for... MediaWiki, Drupal, and phpBB ALL have the notion of "time zone
 associated with a registered user".

 We have about 4,000 registered users scattered across the world. Being
 able to do a simple things like display the post or comment metadata ''as
 it relates to them'', is a natural and desirable thing to do. WordPress
 core already stores date and time metadata in UTC format, and then applies
 a filter to show dates and times as whatever the server admin set.

 Why not add a usermeta field so core and third-party developers can do the
 sensible thing and show post and comment metadata as it relates to the
 reader? (Especially if they were engaged enough to register.)

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