Timezone Superthread

I think it makes sense to keep one thread for time zone issues open, just in case.

My feedback:

• I’m based on Tallinn, and the suggestion on my profile was Helsinki, although a Tallinn option exists
• that’s close enough for me, because i have so far learned that depending on the ISP my IP range might be associated with either Tallinn, Helsinki, or Stockholm.
• i have a suspicion that the setting once set to Tallinn (yesterday i did that, i think) might have proposed again Helsinki, but i am not certain. will observe

Hey, thanks @whysthatso! I like to keep user signup forms as minimal as possible, but I also wanted to capture the most likely timezone for users, so it was at least a decent starting place for anything I need to do or show that’s time-related.

I’m using https://github.com/iansinnott/jstz (within a Stimulus controller) on the signup page to detect timezone on the client side and store it in a hidden form input.

If you go to the signup page when logged out, you can inspect the form to see what timezone was detected.

I’m not sure why it wouldn’t have picked Tallinn, but I also don’t know a lot about browser timezone issues.

But, if you update your timezone under account settings, the app should definitely not be changing it again on you, so let me know if you see that.

i’m not seeing this again, it’s staying on Tallinn, so seems to be alright.