EuiDatePicker input direct edit of date guesses timezone

[marsh73]

Describe the bug When using DatePicker with UTC date, If I select a time change from the dropdown it behaves as expected, but when I edit the date directly, it automatically adjusts the date to UTC in the dropdown, then in the actual date, once I click away. This feels like a bug. If it were deliberate i would expect that the same adjustment would be made when selecting a time from the dropdown.

it seems to assume when selecting from the dropdown that I know what I'm doing, but when manually entering the time, it has to make an adjustment for me. I went to your storybook examples for the utcOffset to see if it was my code or the component itself.

if you go here https://eui.elastic.co/#/forms/date-picker#utc-offsets select a time from the dropdown you'll see the time behaves as expected manually update the time by 1 minute you will see that when you click away it adjusts the hours to account for the offset. this is a confusing behavior

Impact and severity It's a confusing UX that can make it hard to create an exact search

Environment and versions bypassing this as you can recreate in your current storybook in your docs

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. go here https://eui.elastic.co/#/forms/date-picker#utc-offsets
2. select a time from the dropdown => you'll see the time behaves as expected
3. manually update the time by 1 minute => you will see that when you click away it adjusts the hours to account for the offset.

this is a confusing behavior

Expected behavior editing the time input manually would behave as selecting a time input from the list... what i see, is what persists

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[JasonStoltz]

Hey @marsh73, thank you for the bug report. Since we're not really using these UTC offsets in Elastic products, we decided that we're not going to prioritize a fix at this time. However, we are always super grateful for community PRs.

[marsh73]

Thank you... if i can find a solution I'll submit a PR