Build a TimeZone field type

[molomby]

Presented in the Admin UI as a select field. Storing a standard time zone name, eg. Australia/Sydney.

This type would be useful for thing like...

User preferences, eg. for storing the time zone in which all dates should be rendered before presentation to the user (screenshot from Harvest):

Storing the time zone in for specific dates or ranges, eg. for an event (screenshot from Google Calendar):

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Note: it's important this stores the standard time zone name. No an offset, not an offset nickname (like "Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time" or "Australian Eastern Standard Time" or their abbreviations, etc).

[VinayaSathyanarayana]

As part of UserProfile, we should collect the User Timezone and use that for

• display
• default timezone for 'date-time with timezone' data entry

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[molomby]

This has been bumped up a bit in priority; may be worked on soon.

In terms of implementation, I imagine this would wrap the Select type with a predetermined set of options. We'd probably source data directly from the IANA database. See for eg, the current zone1970.tab file.

Option value would be the string time zone name (eg. America/Bahia_Banderas) while the label could incorporate the comment info too (eg. maybe America/Bahia_Banderas (Central Time - Bahía de Banderas)?). These options could be updated periodically when the package was republished (or maybe as part of the build process?).

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[molomby]

See also #7327