I've submitted a patch that fixes this. I have no idea when vroom might apply it nor who else might have the power to do so.

patch checked in.

vroom | Tim Vroom | vroom@blockstackers.com

Just to expand on this, setting the timezone to UTC+0 from user settings results in the page being refreshed, with the timezone at the top showing correctly as UTC+0. But it doesn't seem to actually take: going back to my homenode, it's still out by an hour, and reentering user settings shows me back at UTC+1. My assumption is that the form processing code is redisplaying the submission values, but not actually writing them to the user database (in this case).

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Tommy
Too stupid to live.
Too stubborn to die.

<speculation>


I am guessing that the form shows "UTC+0" after you submit because of CGI.pm's sticky variables.

As to why it's not going into the database, perhaps there is a chunk of code that looks like:

if ($USER->{timezone} != CGI::param('settimezone') && CGI::param('sett
+imezone'))
{
  # change user setting
}
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the value for UTC+0 is the only one that would evalaute as false.

Of course, this is just a guess wihout seeing the code. I'm not sure but I don't think that the timezone setting is in Everything core. I think it's a perlmonks add-on.

</speculation>

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IMPORTANT!

It was I who added the "Your signature:" option to user settings (vroom approved of course), which was the only reason people ever went to new user settings which is obsolete. I'm sure I must've /tell'ed you about this.

use user settings
not new user settings

update: last time I checked user settings did not munge your personal nodelets (new user settings did that, which is why I'm advocating against it). Please confirm this.

 
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perl -e "$q=$_;map({chr unpack qq;H*;,$_}split(q;;,q*H*));print;$q/$q;"

So are our personal nodelets safe from munging by user settings yet?

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-Blake