CRM-21818: set timezone when initializing civicrm

[kerasai]

JIRA Issue: https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-21818

It seems as though the timezone handling was omitted when porting to Drupal 8.

See the Drupal 7 implementation.

[civicrm-builder]

Can one of the admins verify this patch?

[seamuslee001]

Jenkins ok to test

[seamuslee001]

ping @dsnopek @jackrabbithanna

[dsnopek]

The comment here should probably be updated

[dsnopek]

Otherwise, calling this method is good! It's needed to get correct timezone handling. (FYI, @kerasai is a colleague at MDW ;-))

[dsnopek]

We've been using this in production for over a month. Is there anything we can do to help get this merged?

[totten]

To facilitate distribution via composer, the Civi-D8 code is being migrated to a new repository with a slightly different branch naming convention (ie civicrm-drupal@8.x-master becomes civicrm-drupal-8@master). The repo is setup is now, and we need to wind-down or migrate any open D8 PRs.

Here's a quick review:

(CiviCRM Review Template WORD-1.1)

• (r-explain) Pass
• (r-test) Pass: The test-failure reported in Github UI can't possible be accurate -- the real issue is that we don't have a Civi-D8 test suite right now. That's not the PR's problem.
• (r-code) Pass
• (r-doc) Pass
• (r-maint) Pass: We don't have a Civi-D8 test suite right now. That's not the PR's problem.
• (r-run) Pass: Trusting @dsnopek's comments
• (r-user) Pass: Small change and generally aligned with common practice in other CMS integrations
• (r-tech) Pass: Small change and generally aligned with common practice in other CMS integrations. Even if there were an r-tech issue, it'd be OK to change slightly since we're still pre-release.