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In profile options, it has:
"Set your Timezone as +/- hours from Server"
People are more likely to know where they are relative to UTC. If I see "Chicago" I have to start guessing or looking up, and if it's "unknown" as sometimes happens, then I'm stumped.
Also, I like the MediaWiki preferences option to "fill in from browser". Click, and (for anyone with a correct clock on their machine) it's done.
Even better would be if all of this info was shared with the main WP profile, but I'm brand new here, so I'll look around first...
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There is no timezone setting in the WP profile.
What we can do after WP moves to php 5 is offer the user the same dropdown list as the blog settings which should make it easier. I am not convinced that everybody out there is familiar with UTC
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Ok, thanks.
Yellow Swordfish said:
I am not convinced that everybody out there is familiar with UTC
Surely more than are familiar with the particular timezone of the server, even if they know where the server is? And more still if we say "GMT".
And I don't know how I'd work out the difference without reference to UTC/GMT, anyway. And my guess is that those that don't know their UTC offset are unlikely to be editing a setting like this anyway.
Of course, I'm assuming a global community. If it's a bunch of people living in the same zone as the server, that's different, but I suspect that's rare.
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In a perfect world, relative to UTC makes sense. In the world of WordPress withing the universe of hosting galaxies, setting time offset relative to the server makes much more sense; I've had several issues with server offset on different hosting companies until WP started using the server offset (sometime later in the WP2.x series) and from then on the facility to indicate a the offset in SP worked perfectly reliable - including the regular daylight saving nonsense jumps. (No I'm no fan of daylight saving but that's neither here or there.)
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not sure I understand the discussion turns here... we offer the option for users to update their time as an offset from the server time (which is displayed by timezone)... in v5.0, we will change the offset to be a timezone selection for the user. we will then calculate the offset to get the correct time... It should behave properly with DST too...
and yes, like living in Arizona where we do not change for DST...
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Thanks for the replies - I look forward to version 5.0 with the dropdown timezone list :-).
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And me actually! Looking forward to V5 that is...
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Well - Now that I read the above thread - I see why things are the way they are.
However, every single visitor to my site (pretty much) will to be in UTC +13 - as it is a local community site.
My server sites in USA - so the server time is irrelevant.
My WP timezone is set correctly so that it is also set to UTC +13.
So in WP Settings it shows up as this:
- UTC time is
2012-11-19 19:57:01Local time is
2012-11-20 8:57:01
Yet when the user goes to the profile screen and presses options, he sees this:
Server Timezone set to: UTC
This timezone is currently in standard time
Server Time is: 2012-11-19 19:55:57
Local Time is: 2012-11-19 19:55:57
UTC Time is: 2012-11-19 19:55:57
But I want all users to have their time zone prepopulated to UTC+13 when their profile are created. Is this doable? Infact I like to preset a few profile options at registration time - including time zone, Disable the visual editor when writing and a couple of other stuff like their default editor.
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you really should not use UTC+13... its really not a valid timezone... still dont know why wp put in their options... things work so much better if you select and actual timezone in the wp settings... there will be a city in that +13 zone...
then you will see users who dont select their own timzeone will get that as the default...
disable the visual editor?? just dont use the tinymce plugin... must be missing something here...
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WP kept the UTC options in the drop down select list to be backward compatible with all pre-php 5 WP sites when only UTC was available and was basically hand coded.
A mistake in my opinion but I sort of understand why they did it.
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