[wp-hackers] peculiar problem on setting GMT

[Beau Lebens]

I'd love to see something along the lines where the blog itself was
allocated a timezone (e.g. where the server is/where the site is
hosted), and each user inherit that TZ by default, but be able to
choose their own. That way the blog's timezone (correlated with the
user's timezone) could be used to calculate the date (in GMT) before
storage, and then each user's timezone could be used to show the
correct time (in their local time) when displaying content.

That being said, it's probably quite a lot of change to do that
everywhere that dates/times are used :)



On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:12 AM, SoJ Web <sojweb at indiana.edu> wrote:
> Indeed. I think it would be helpful, too, to, in that case, also display the
> GMT offset. You could end up with a post published at 3 p.m. showing up
> after a post published at 1 p.m., which would look odd in
> reverse-chronological order unless it were clear that they were published in
> different time zones.
>
>
> -Jeff
>
> On Apr 14, 2009, at 13:24 PM, Simon Wheatley wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 6:13 PM, technocraze <technocraze at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> My view is that we should set GMT for users rather than blogs.
>>> Your views please.
>>>
>>
>> This sounds like a very handy plugin for someone to write. ;)
>>
>> S
>>
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