[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #38883: Shim post_date_gmt for drafts / empty dates in the REST API

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#38883: Shim post_date_gmt for drafts / empty dates in the REST API
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 Reporter:  joehoyle                    |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)                |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                      |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  REST API                    |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                      |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch has-unit-tests  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by joehoyle):

 As a means of getting the discussion going, I've added a patch that shims
 the `date_gmt` value to the UTC "version" of the `date` field - this means
 API clients will always have a UTC date to rely on. Currently, if clients
 want to show dates in the timezone of their users, it's virtually not
 possible to do that for drafts.

 To make it _possible_ we could expose the `gmt_offset` / timezone on the
 site's root `/wp-json/` so atleast a client could *technically* reverse
 the `date` field into a `date_gmt` value themselves - that's certainly not
 a pretty solution though.

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