Design issue Time Zones during registration

[Moshe1010]

Not sure how that works, but when a user tries to register to my board it sets the wrong destination as a time zone. For example, a user on my board should have "(UTC +02:00) Jerusalem" set as its time zone during registration. However, it seems like ALL users that are registering from this region, get the time "(UTC +02:00) Eastern European Time".

Sure, one would argue that this is the same time zone but a different region. But if to be realistic, Eastern Europe is about 3-4 hours flight from Jerusalem, so that's not correct.

Just to be clear, the guest time zone set to UTC +02:00 Jerusalem in ACP, but I think it's irrelevant for this issue.

 

[Mike]

We attempt to guess the correct time zone, but this isn't possible - there are ambiguities where it's not clear which TZ it would be (both use DST but at different times, for example). You can remove this from the register_form template and it will just default to the guest time zone:

{xen:if $fields.timezoneAuto, 'AutoTimeZone'}

 

[AndyB]

We attempt to guess the correct time zone...

How is this done?

 

[Alpha1]

We attempt to guess the correct time zone, but this isn't possible

Now that browsers support a different standard, maybe this method can be implemented so that this bug can be resolved?
More here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6939685/get-client-time-zone-from-browser/8984850#8984850