[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #10660: Time zone suggester based on nascent WordPress.org API call

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#10660: Time zone suggester based on nascent WordPress.org API call
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 Reporter:  sambauers                 |       Owner:  rmccue
     Type:  feature request           |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal                    |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Date/Time                 |     Version:  2.8.4
 Severity:  normal                    |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch dev-feedback  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by rmccue):

 I implemented timezone detection via the browser for a project I was
 working on. Unfortunately, the browser doesn't report the Olsen timezone
 via JS, only the [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-
 US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/getTimezoneOffset
 timezone offset]. There's a [http://pellepim.bitbucket.org/jstz/ nice
 little library] that applies heuristics based on the offset and DST
 information, but this isn't native to the browser.

 One potentially easier solution would be to use `getTimezoneOffset()` to
 provide filtered suggestions for the picker, and expose these to the user.
 This would require outputting the timezone offset in
 `wp_timezone_choice()`, which would also allow us to show the current time
 live as you change the timezone.

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