Simplified users Timezone handling

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

On 11/23/2009 06:14 AM, Frédéric Buclin wrote:
> Le 23. 11. 09 13:26, David Balažic a écrit :
>> That's it. No user action required.
>>
>> This solution also automatically handles daylight saving time changes.
> 
> This won't work. Your suggestion only works when viewing bugs from a web
> browser *and* having JS turned on. 

	Well, it does work for that case, though. And it works for logged-out
users, which is nice.

> And I'm
> pretty sure you still have to store the timezone somewhere to do the
> conversion correctly.

	Yeah, we'd have to store it on the server still, which would probably
confuse people. I don't think we can get Olson timezone names (like
America/Los_Angeles) from JS.

	-Max
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