with date format 'c', the_time() and get_the_time() print wrong time zone offset

[paulschreiber]

With the date format 'c', the_time() and get_the_time() print the wrong time zone offset. They print +00:00, even though the time shown is in local time, not GMT/UTC.

Example (inside the loop):

var_dump( [
  get_option( 'gmt_offset' ),
  get_option( 'timezone_string' ),
  get_the_time( 'c' ),
  get_post_time( 'c', false ),
  get_post_time( 'c', true )
] );

Output:

array (size=5)
  0 => float -5
  1 => string 'America/New_York' (length=16)
  2 => string '2018-01-09T15:02:17+00:00' (length=25) // get_the_time( 'c' ); offset wrong
  3 => string '2018-01-09T15:02:17+00:00' (length=25) // get_post_time( 'c', false ); offset wrong
  4 => string '2018-01-09T20:02:17+00:00' (length=25) // correct

Implementation
the_time() calls get_the_time(), which calls get_post_time() with $gmt set tofalse.

See related #43480.

[soulseekah]

Related #20973

[Rarst]

Duplicate of #20973.

Yeah, this is duplicate. All of these come down to date_i18n() call down the line, which is unable to process shorthand formats.

Forcing it to GMT doesn't as much make it correct as makes brokeness less relevant.

[paulschreiber]

Excellent! A duplicate of a bug from 2012. For which patches existed in 2014.