Use the offset from UTC heuristic to select the proper timezone in da…

[AlexandreAbreu]

…te time settings

[justincan]

• The change to be data driven is good and necessary
• The other parts shouldn't happen; Because being in the same UTC offset does not imply being in the same timezone.

I vote we wait for OK to use react-timezone, or similar, and populate it with data collated by snapweb.

[AlexandreAbreu]

I agree about your comment about the "being in the same UTC offset does not imply being in the same timezone" but the point of this is to offer a somewhat "reasonable" simplification (at least for the time being)... There is currently a gap in the code. And the fact that we cannot display a meaningful "timezone" string for basic North American locations (like me w/ Montreal or Toronto timezone strings) is really bad imo, ... I agree that it is not a final solution,

It is a tricky subject and from the UI perspective, ...

[dbarth]

I'd vote for landing, otherwise the vast majority of users live in "Samoa and Chrismas Island", which feels like a bug in most other parts of the world.

[dbarth]

Knowing that this gives us time to implement a better solution and review with Design.