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Summary

There is an issue with the timezone selector.

It's not showing correct time zones.

Brisbane Australia is +10 GMT / UTC... has no daylight savings time.

Yet it list it as +9 GMT.

http://www.timetemperature.com/australia/brisbane_time_zone.shtml

Expected Behaviour

+10 incorrect timezone

Actual Behaviour

+10 is the correct timezone, if this is wrong, i'd assume alot of the other ones are incorrect too.

Context details (if applicable)

• Anchor version: .Powered by Anchor, version 0.12.1
• Server setup: shared cpanel host
• URL

This issue has already been fixed, please update to the latest version (0.12.1).

That is the version I am using.

In your context details you mention that your anchor version is .93, and I assumed you meant 0.9.3? Can you please confirm this?

I fixed this a while back: https://github.com/anchorcms/anchor-cms/pull/1101

That's a really old version of anchor...

sorry, as per admin console - Powered by Anchor, version 0.12.1

Ahh, I'm guessing you are on migration 93.

This is a visual only glitch for the record. If you select the timezone, it should still correctly use the timezone.

sorry fresh install i'm not sure why i thought it was 93.

How can i confirm timezones easily enough?

This is still a thing btw. @Gerrit0 so do I choose UTC+1 or UTC+2 for Germany now? (Germany is actually UTC+1)

I believe it should be the option labeled GMT+2 Europe/Berlin, as that will choose the PHP timezone of Europe/Berlin, I've moved on from Anchor however so really can't say for sure.

Looks like I might have to return briefly as this will now bug me to no end :)

Edit: I looked into this some more and am now thoroughly confused... can you please confirm that Germany is UTC+1? https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/germany/berlin claims +2.

Could it be that this is some daylight saving time stuff? I referred to this map, where it says UTC=GMT and London has to be GMT+0. Berlin always was GMT+1 in user interfaces i saw. Could be i got something wrong there and UTC is handled differently when it comes to DST though, as timeanddate.com suggests.

EDIT: did some reading. This is indeed about DST, the +1/+2 varies because of winter/summer time. So its technically right but imho a weird user experience.

Yep! That would do it. Do you have a recommendation for how the list should display? Should we just completely ignore DST when generating the timezone list?

UTC ignores DST, so my suggestion would be to display timezones as UTC, not as GMT.

The question is, what do users expect?

• Windows Time Settings use UTC
• Google Calendar uses GMT
• Twitter uses GMT
• Wordpress seems to use UTC (only checked some manual, don't have an instance up)
• Joomla seems to use UTC (see Wordpress)
• Personally I'd be like oh wtf when I see UTC, maybe google it and say oooh, or I'd just know I have to choose "+1 Berlin/Amsterdam/...". Can't really tell what's the best UX here.

I guess the mixture of DST and GMT (which we know as +0) makes it weird at first because we think London has to be +0 too then.^^

TL;DR: As long as the city names are kept, UTC would be the best UX imho.