Conflict between timezones in "Insert date / time"

I’m afraid the technical reason here is pretty confusing - you can read about it at Moment Timezone | Docs

POSIX compatibility requires that the offsets are inverted. Therefore, Etc/GMT-X will have an offset of +X and Etc/GMT+X will have an offset of -X . This is a result of IANA’s Time Zone Database and not an arbitrary choice by Moment.js. Thus, using locality based identifiers is preferred over fixed-offset identifiers.

So, in IANA’s Time Zone database, Europe/Oslo is currently equivalent to Etc/GMT-1

Monday, November 8, 2021 7:00 PM

I do wonder if we could/should introduce our own UTC+1, UTC+2, timezone aliases (without the Etc/ prefix). :thinking: (cc @joffreyjaffeux)

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