[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #38774: Date and time APIs for posts make wrong timezone assumptions

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#38774: Date and time APIs for posts make wrong timezone assumptions
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 Reporter:  Rarst         |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Date/Time     |     Version:  4.6.1
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                |     Focuses:
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Comment (by Rarst):

 We've considered going canonical UTC in this Date/Time component revamp.

 Unfortunately it's too nuanced to happen right now.

 In a nutshell UTC favors working with time ''that had already happened''
 and local time can be reliable calculated for any time zone from it.

 However for ''future'' time local time is preferable since users operate
 with that rather than UTC and ''future'' time zone offsets are essentially
 unknowable (being dependent on such things like political decisions about
 them).

 Since we are locked in to current database schema for backwards
 compatibility, there is no good take to advance this at the moment.

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