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It appears as if when saving a user as "Browser Timezone" after changing the timezone to something other than "Browser Timezone" that the value is saved as an empty string instead of nil.

Check it out:

katello=# select count(id) from users where timezone = '';
 count 
-------
     1
(1 row)

(byebug) cookies[:timezone]
"America/New_York"
(byebug) User.current.try(:timezone)
""

Which will obviously cause this time zone code [1]:

client_timezone  = User.current.try(:timezone) || cookies[:timezone]
Time.zone        = client_timezone if client_timezone.present?

to not set the correct timezone since User.current.try(:timezone) will be true and thus client_timezone.present? will be false.

h3. Steps to Reproduce

# Change a user's timezone to something other than "Browser timezone"
# Change the same user's timezone back to "Browser timezone"
# Note that user.timezone is an empty string

[1] https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/blob/develop/app/controllers/concerns/application_shared.rb#L9-L13

Created from redmine issue http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/15285

Upstream bug component is WebUI

I believe the proper fix would be to update the model (or controller?) to set the value to null in case it gets "".
As one can pass an empty string even from API or Hammer.
I believe we want to mimic the behaviour of the 'locale' attribute. which is also null by default, but it even stays null if one updates it to an empty string.

Moving 6.2 bugs out to sat-backlog.

Moving 6.2 bugs out to sat-backlog.

Upstream bug assigned to szadok

Upstream bug assigned to szadok

This has been copied to an issue upstream. When the upstream issue is fixed, the next version of satellite will contain it. We will no longer track this downstream.