[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:  Future Release
Component:  Users              |     Version:
 Severity:  normal             |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch        |     Focuses:
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Comment (by rianjs):

 Replying to [comment:15 SergeyBiryukov]:
 > Replying to [comment:14 swissspidy]:
 > > Note on the manual offsets: It seems like WP uses them in the general
 options for backwards compatibility and they aren't necessary for user
 timezones.
 >
 > I'd prefer to keep manual offsets for user timezones as well.
 >
 > [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Time Moscow Time] was changed to
 year-round UTC+4 three years ago, however not all servers have the
 relevant timezone information. So the Russian package currently uses a
 manual offset (UTC+4) rather than a timezone string (Europe/Moscow) in
 [[http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp/dev/admin/ru/default?filters[status]=either&filters[original_id]=40444&filters[translation_id]=2509867|translation
 files]].

 Handling this at the application level because a server admin hasn't
 updated tzdata in three years is building needless technical debt that
 will have to be retired later.

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