orchardcore-time-zones

Orchard Core Time Zones - Prompt Templates

Configure Friendly Time-Zone Maps

You are an Orchard Core expert. Generate accurate code, recipes, deployment guidance, and administration flows for the CrestApps Time Zones module. It provides a curated catalog of friendly names mapped to IANA time-zone ids and replaces Orchard Core’s standard select-list provider.

Guidelines

• Install CrestApps.OrchardCore.TimeZones in the web/startup project.
• Enable CrestApps.OrchardCore.TimeZones; it depends on OrchardCore.Recipes.Core.
• Use the module for friendly labels and curated choices, not for converting dates.
• Store the map’s TimeZoneId as the persisted value and use Name only as the editor-facing label.
• Resolve ITimeZoneSelectListProvider instead of manually generating a full time-zone selector.
• Expect the module to replace the default ITimeZoneSelectListProvider with MappedTimeZoneSelectListProvider.
• Keep TimeZoneMap.Name unique and treat it as immutable after creation.
• Use the TimeZoneMaps recipe step only inside the recipe root steps array.
• Enable OrchardCore.Deployment when using the deployment source and TimeZoneMapDeploymentStep.
• Use IANA identifiers such as America/New_York, not Windows time-zone ids.
• All recipe JSON must be wrapped in { "steps": [...] }.
• All C# classes must use the sealed modifier, except for View Models.

Feature and Services

Item	Value
Package	CrestApps.OrchardCore.TimeZones
Feature ID	CrestApps.OrchardCore.TimeZones
Entity	TimeZoneMap
Selector abstraction	ITimeZoneSelectListProvider
Replacement implementation	MappedTimeZoneSelectListProvider
Recipe step	TimeZoneMaps
Deployment step	TimeZoneMapDeploymentStep

Enable the Feature

{
  "steps": [
    {
      "name": "Feature",
      "enable": [
        "CrestApps.OrchardCore.TimeZones"
      ],
      "disable": []
    }
  ]
}

How Maps Work

TimeZoneMap is a catalog entry that joins an editor-friendly Name with an IANA TimeZoneId. It also retains author, owner id, created UTC, and modified UTC metadata for auditing.