[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #61223: Date Time and UTC / GTM Timezone is not synchronizing

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#61223: Date Time and UTC / GTM Timezone is not synchronizing
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 Reporter:  lamarajan     |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Date/Time     |     Version:  6.5.3
 Severity:  major         |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch   |     Focuses:  sustainability
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Comment (by Rarst):

 WordPress de facto does not support changing time zone, all post times are
 considered to be in current settings time zone, as you have observed.

 Supporting this would require either significant effort to migrate local
 times every time time zone is changed (there is no strong precedent and
 support in core for such mechanics) or moving to using UTC times as
 canonical. We have considered the latter, but it conflicts with support
 for scheduling posts in core, which requires working with local times
 (since the future state of time zone relative to UTC is not knowable).

 In a nutshell, this would be a complicated thing to implement and demand
 for it has been relatively low (on a WordPress scale).

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