2008/11/6 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com:
Given that I currently have user profiles on 427 WMF wikis, I will not bother changing settings like my timezone. It is just to much work. Many applications allow you to select the timezone itself and have the offset to GMT be a consequence of the timezone selected. An equally good change would be to make the timezone part of preferences that are maintained globally for a user.
This has nothing to do with this problem; this problematic behavior occurs for any change of preferences, e.g. enabling some gadget, it is not in any way limited to time zones.
For the request you describe, take a look at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505 (which would, indeed, be a useful thing to have).
-- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]]