Prevent asking for timezone

[jasonvarga]

Edit: Ignore this request, at least for now. Once Statamic natively handles timezones better, then it would make sense to avoid changing your timezone.

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Hi!

During the setup, there is a prompt that asks for your site's timezone. I recommend that you remove that and just use UTC.

Or, if you must show the prompt, at least default to UTC so you can just hit enter.

It's best practice to use UTC and I feel the prompt is encouraging people to go against it even if that wasn't the intention.

At Statamic we're going to be fighting an uphill battle to convert to UTC because of going against the best practice years ago.
statamic/ideas#842

[robdekort]

I know it's against best practices, but there's currently no way in Statamic to get stuff like post dates and scheduled times to properly reflect a users timezone, as far as I know that is. This is why it's in there, and I why I don't currently use UTC for my sites.

Or should this be handled differently?

[robdekort]

I could default to UTC better in the prompt btw. That's a great call, if prompts supports that. Probably!

[marcorieser]

@jasonvarga I probably don't see all the critical bits but my simple approach for migration would be:

1. check if the timezone is something other than UTC
2. if so, find all the date fields and configure them correctly (programmatically of course)
3. batch save all the entries
4. done

[robdekort]

Darn, I think my memory was right for once, you can't set a default in a Laravel search prompt.

[jasonvarga]

We don't need to clutter the peak repo with this, but yes, thanks that's about the gist of it. Of course it's simpler to write a bullet list than to implement though. 😄

[robdekort]

I think Marco is offering to write it for you...

[jasonvarga]

You know what, ignore this. It's our burden to deal with. No sense making it more difficult for users in the mean time. 👌