“Automatocally adjust clock for daylight saving changes” feature
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Hey y’all!
Feature suggestion: Add an “Automatocally adjust clock for daylight saving changes” feature which we can enable or disable it.
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Daylight savings is probably only in effect in a minority of the countries WP.com is used in. You can always change your own blog’s clock under Options.
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That’s a minority of countries. WordPress.com is extremely popular in Asia, which has a lot of countries.
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Either way, staff would like the request send to them through a feedback for new and improved features! Good idea!
Trent
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The staff get many idea requests and consider them. Although they do not respond to each individual request by email, in some cases many months later the features are introduced and in others they aren’t.
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For reference:
Current forum post
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=13417
From the forum searchbox
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/search.php?q=daylight+savings -
Also, Ryan explaining in possibly unintelligible terms why this will never be implemented.
(I think the only sentence you really need is that the full timezone database would be five times the size of wordpress itself ;) )
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I’ll turn this thread to “resolved”. As wank said above, I don’t think they’ll have this feature, ever.
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I agree I thonk word press should improve its date/time handeling routine. One other option is to allow the user to view time in their local time and noty just teh database base off set from GMT.
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Wank member BS time zone offsets are available on all servers. Its a matter of taping into whats already there. This is really common stuff.
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A timezone database isn’t that big, is it? The tzdata package is only 5Mb on my system (Ubuntu).
IMO, the argument that it isn’t perfect isn’t very valid. Standard Unix timezone databases are pretty good, and much better than no support at all. The few people for whom it doesn’t work could always fall back on the way it works now, while the folks from places with DST would be happy not to have to set their timezone info twice a year. -
PHP can handle the translation of GMT to local time. The argument that the TZ database is 5 times the size of WordPress is absurd. Many websites handle translation to local time, including DST. That’s what users understand and want to see. How many average website users know how to translate GMT at any point (including 5 years ago on some random day) to their local time with DST? We already select our offset, so it’s just a matter of having the offset selection correspond to a PHP-recognized TZ value. Here’s a blog entry that does a pretty good job covering it.
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