Revisiting #35: Discarding timezone data

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I would like to quickly discuss #35 again. I'm planning to prepare a patch for jekyll to keep the timezone data (read with SafeYAML) intact, see jekyll/jekyll#6033. This is impossible without monkey patching SafeYAML, as already indicated in #35. The patch itself is trivial.

Is the decision on closing #35 final? Would it be possible to somehow get an option for this behavior? The current implementation discards useful data and I would hate monkey patching this if I can avoid it.

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Jekyll would really like to at least have the option of preserving the timezone. There have been some strange issues where the post timezone and site timezone differ in such a way that a posts date seems to be different from what the user specified. If the date is used in the URL, this can be very confusing.

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I opened a pull request to fix this issue: #87