Issue status update for http://drupal.org/node/21343 Project: Drupal Version: cvs Component: system.module Category: feature requests Priority: normal Assigned to: Anonymous Reported by: crunchywelch Updated by: tostinni Status: patch IMHO, I pretty like the way windows defines the time zone, it allows various choices (I guess regarding of the daylight savings) for each timezone. Also it gaves cities as reference, because here in Mexico, I'm not sure that everybody knows that we are in US Central time zone ;) Worth the include in core, but maybe with a little more precision. tostinni Previous comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ April 26, 2005 - 00:59 : crunchywelch Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/system_6.patch (4.87 KB) This patch adds locale names to the timezone offsets provided by system.module. Currently, the function returns an array with offsets for keys and formatted 'local' times for the values. With this patch, the function will return an associative array with two keys 'times' and 'locales'. Each key has an array with the offset values for keys, and thier associated local time value, or locale name. This patch provides a standard place to retrieve timezone values when developing with them, improves useability when displaying timezone select boxes, and updates the timezone offset values. This patch will be utilized immediately by event.module, which currently uses an almost equivelant function, event_zonelist. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ April 26, 2005 - 11:17 : Dries Does anyone thinks is worth including in core? If it is only useful for one or two modules (eg. the event module), it would be easy enough to include this table in those modules. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ April 26, 2005 - 12:01 : killes@www.drop.org Yes, I think this patch is usefull. It makes the time zone selector better readable and improves usability. This selector is used for both the cetral system time and the user's time zone (if that is enabled). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ April 26, 2005 - 13:08 : TDobes It might be nice to have a more readable timezone list, but this might cause some users to assume that Drupal deals with daylight savings time. For example, the majority of the "US Central" timezone (where I live) switches for DST, so I would expect that, to most people, "US Central" means "Central Prevailing Time" (CST or CDT depending on the time of the year). I can say for certain that, had I not previously seen the code, this would be confusing to me. On the other hand, the numeric values (as we have now), suggest that a constant offset from GMT is used. If we really want to include these named timezones, I think we should mention or indicate in some way that Drupal does not deal with DST. It's unfortunate that implementing international DST is so complicated. So... I don't mind the named timezones, but I think that, if we do commit this patch, it should be indicated in the UI that Drupal will not adjust its clock automatically for daylight savings.