GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 699080
No support for UTC and PDT
Last modified: 2014-09-02 19:59:13 UTC
It's quite common that while working with people across timezones, you set a meeting time in UTC or PDT. I frequently get called to meeting that are "11:00 PDT" and then I go like "shit, pretty sure I'm not going to be able to figure that one out". 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Time_Zone
I would love this, too
Me either
*** Bug 734971 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
For the record, I would really like this too, right now this is blocked by the fact that we use libgweather location entry to add clocks, so we would not have any way to add it. I'd like to have our own entry (maybe inline with a gtksearchentry + a listbox), but that is blocked by https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=734878
FWIW there is nothing special about Pacific Daylight Time; it's just the timezone one hour behind Mountain Daylight Time and one hour ahead of Pacific Standard Time. I'm not opposed to adding support for arbitrary timezones, distinct from any city, but you'd have to think about how to do this in a user-friendly way. We should not expect users to understand the distinction between PST and PDT, we should absolutely never display PST when we really mean PDT, and we probably can't automatically switch between the two because different countries (and Arizona...) switch timezones on different dates. In contrast, if you know PST/PDT is San Francisco or LA or Seattle, Clocks can just show you the right time without worry about complicated timezone nonsense. But UTC is straightforward to handle, since that timezone is universally useful year-round.
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 692243 ***