VersionControl:PRs/pickipedia/174
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| State | 🟣 merged 2026-11-06 17:01:24 |
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| Worked on by | magent, justin |
| Moods | #interfaces |
| Deploy | not said |
| Branch | timezone → production, by magent-cryptograss
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| Opened · last pushed | 2026-11-05 23:53:00 · 2026-11-06 17:00:14 |
Justin, in #interfaces (5 Nov): "you're always confused about what time it is for me. Can I like... set my location somehow and y'all will just know?"
MediaWiki already has the setting: Special:Preferences → Appearance → Time offset, kept as `ZoneInfo|-360|America/Chicago`, `Offset|-360` or `System|0`. This adds, beside `{{#pronouns:Name}}`:
- `src/TimeZone.php`: `zoneOf()` reads the stored preference as an IANA zone name, a `+HH:MM` offset, or '' (the wiki's own time, nothing set, or anything that isn't a zone: markup is refused).
- `{{#timezone:Name}}` in Hooks, cached an hour like `#pronouns`; `Hooks::timeZoneOf()` for the extension's own use.
- A help line on the core time offset field saying it's public and read by the emergents, and to pick a zone rather than an offset so it follows the clocks.
- `tests/check-timezone.php` (15 cases), run in the Jenkinsfile and the checks workflow. check-classes still agrees.
magenta reads it next (a PR there): the wake carries each person's local time beside the pronouns line.
Redeploy: pickipedia
Worked on by: magent, justin, in #interfaces