How to hide "Locale settings" section on registration pages

The easiest way is to either implement form_alter in a custom module, check for the "user_edit" form and then unset($form['timezone']); - or - in your theme layer, template.php, implement :

function phptemplate_user_edit($form){
  unset($form['timezone']);
  return drupal_render($form);
}

the second option is probably the easiest as you don't have to create a new module etc - don't forget to clear your theme registry cache (just visit admin/build/modules and this should happen magically) before your theme override will take affect.

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http://auction/admin/settings/date-time
here User-configurable time zones: change to disable

Just did some research on this myself...

The best way in D7 would actually be to use hook_form_user_register_form_alter(). The problem with that is that the timezone field is inserted by a sibling hook, system_form_user_register_form_alter().

Since "s" is a very late letter in the alphabet, that hook will always be executed after yours. So, you would have to use another hook, hook_module_implements_alter(), to change the execution order. But it turns out you can't do that in this case, thanks to a bug in drupal core (#765860: drupal_alter() fails to order modules correctly in some cases).

However, if you really just want to remove the timestamp all together, you could use the same method to completely unregister the system hook inserting the component:

 function MYMODULE_module_implements_alter(&$implementations, $hook) {
  if ($hook == 'form_user_register_form_alter') {
    unset($implementations['system']);
  }
} 

That will effectively get rid of the timezone element, but it's not a very safe way of implementing it, as you can't know what other stuff might be put into system_form_user_register_form_alter() in the future.

Hi,

I know this is old, but I was just trying to do the exact same thing and came across the fix that works. If you are using a custom module with hook_form_user_profile_form_alter - you need to set the weight of your module to something like, say 100. Once I went into my DB and changed my modules weight in the system table, I was able to see the timezone array in my dsm($form) and target it to remove it. However, once I went through all the work of figuring this out, we opted to just strongarm the configurable_timezone variable to default it to 0 instead.

Hope this helps.

Please delete

The correct admin path for Drupal 7 is: admin/config/regional/settings
where you can un-check the option "Users may set their own time zone."

In drupal 8 also admin path is: admin/config/regional/settings
where we can un-check the option "Users may set their own time zone." Its working for me in drupal 8.