Default time zone = GMT+10 ?

[Katie Wasserman]

(10-22-2015 06:45 PM)Dieter Wrote:  But I always wondered why the default time zone (which is displayed for any user that is not logged in, i.e. also for all Guests visiting this site) seems to be set to GMT+10 (if I got this right) – that's somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. OK, this is convenient for members in Northeast Australia, but since this is an international forum with users from all over the world, I would consider GMT or UTC a more appropriate default setting.

I don't see why GMT/UTC would be a better default setting. It's just another time zone that perhaps has more people living it in than GMT+10. I would argue that the best default should be the one where the least number of members (or potential members) would need to change it. Likely GMT-8 (the west coast of the US), I suspect that this would cover the largest number of current members. Possibly UTC+8 as this has by far the largest population by time zone.

Quote:The same holds for the date format: mm-dd-yyyy is fine for US users, but confusing for most of the rest of the world. What about the ISO standard yyyy-mm-dd?

This makes sense in that it is an international standard.