[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #18146: Add user-level & front end timezone display flexibility according to a fixed time [GMT:0]

[WordPress Trac]

#18146: Add user-level & front end timezone display flexibility according to a
fixed time [GMT:0]
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 Reporter:  RanYanivHartstein  |       Owner:  swissspidy
     Type:  feature request    |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal             |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Date/Time          |     Version:
 Severity:  normal             |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch        |     Focuses:
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Comment (by johnjamesjacoby):

 > What concern do you have on the implementation side of front end
 visitors looking at the website at their own time zone

 Where and how a datetime value gets mutated according to a user preference
 is highly nuanced.

 There are endless examples of where a user with an account may prefer to
 see things relative not only to their current time zone, but even in their
 preferred date and time formats. Adding timezone support is simply the
 fist step of several.

 It is not uncommon for a WordPress website to have multiple authors from
 multiple areas of the world. Depending on the difference between the site
 timezone and their own, it is possible to immediately see a time
 discrepancy when publishing content.

 Allowing a user to set their own timezone allows for WordPress to
 reconcile those discrepancies in the UI, to avoid confusion around how
 content could be published either from the future or from the past.

 Screen shot imminent of:

 * Me living in Chicago
 * My site being in Dawson Creek
 * Me publishing a post at 11:55am my time
 * Me seeing a post published at 10:55am without any indication why the
 time is off by 1 hour

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