From b12e4cd5aadee491c302d103ad1fc69a7032bd23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Half-Shot <will@half-shot.uk>
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2024 17:49:38 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Set timezone publish at the device level to prevent all
 devices writing to the timezone field.

---
 .../views/settings/tabs/user/PreferencesUserSettingsTab.tsx    | 3 ++-
 src/settings/Settings.tsx                                      | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/components/views/settings/tabs/user/PreferencesUserSettingsTab.tsx b/src/components/views/settings/tabs/user/PreferencesUserSettingsTab.tsx
index 0fc8690fe2..39ebb092ec 100644
--- a/src/components/views/settings/tabs/user/PreferencesUserSettingsTab.tsx
+++ b/src/components/views/settings/tabs/user/PreferencesUserSettingsTab.tsx
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ export default class PreferencesUserSettingsTab extends React.Component<IProps,
         "MessageComposerInput.insertTrailingColon",
     ];
 
-    private static TIME_SETTINGS = ["showTwelveHourTimestamps", "alwaysShowTimestamps", "userTimezonePublish"];
+    private static TIME_SETTINGS = ["showTwelveHourTimestamps", "alwaysShowTimestamps"];
 
     private static CODE_BLOCKS_SETTINGS = [
         "enableSyntaxHighlightLanguageDetection",
@@ -310,6 +310,7 @@ export default class PreferencesUserSettingsTab extends React.Component<IProps,
                         </div>
 
                         {this.renderGroup(PreferencesUserSettingsTab.TIME_SETTINGS)}
+                        <SettingsFlag name="userTimezonePublish" level={SettingLevel.DEVICE} />
                     </SettingsSubsection>
 
                     <SettingsSubsection
diff --git a/src/settings/Settings.tsx b/src/settings/Settings.tsx
index c0d61c1506..b9e432fd55 100644
--- a/src/settings/Settings.tsx
+++ b/src/settings/Settings.tsx
@@ -656,7 +656,8 @@ export const SETTINGS: { [setting: string]: ISetting } = {
         default: "",
     },
     "userTimezonePublish": {
-        supportedLevels: LEVELS_ACCOUNT_SETTINGS,
+        // This is per-device so you can avoid having devices overwrite each other.
+        supportedLevels: LEVELS_DEVICE_ONLY_SETTINGS,
         displayName: _td("settings|preferences|publish_timezone"),
         default: false,
         controller: new ServerSupportUnstableFeatureController(