[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #39855: REST API: Add timezone offset to all date responses

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#39855: REST API: Add timezone offset to all date responses
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 Reporter:  jnylen0       |      Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |  Milestone:  4.7.3
Component:  REST API      |    Version:  4.7
 Severity:  normal        |   Keywords:
  Focuses:  rest-api      |
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 Currently the REST API returns dates in the following format:
 `2016-12-12T14:00:00`.  This should really be `2016-12-12T14:00:00Z` for
 `date_gmt` or `2016-12-12T14:00:00-05:00` for `date`.

 Date/time values should always be stored and processed with their
 corresponding timezone offset (or at least a best guess).  This
 accomplishes a few things at once:

 - Exposes the best guess for the timezone offset of the `date` (non-UTC)
 field of a post or comment.  This information is currently not available
 anywhere else in the API.
 - Makes client-side datetime manipulation much easier and less error-
 prone.  See ticket:38342#comment:86.

 If we are going to make this change we need to do it soon.  Milestoning
 for 4.7.3 for discussion.

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