On Apr 19, 2006, at 1:05 PM, Jeremy Epstein wrote:
Just to chime in, one thing you might want to take into account is "when" a user would actually care. Personally, If I were making appointments (even if I knew I were traveling) I would not concern t myself with timezone. -- I would always expect my calendar to be in my "home" time zone, or even better, not care about timezone unless it may cause a conflict such as the two circumstances below:
I presume you would want your calendar to be in NY time when you travelled to NY so you don't have do the mental math of converting from PST to EST when looking at your agenda. Also, if I were planning events in NY I would want to view things in NY time as well, so as not to schedule things at weird times.
*For me, there are only two circumstances where the timezone I am in matters: * 1) if an appointment I am making might conflict with travel across timezones (such as an international flight) This is a very strange case. It means I have an event (airplane flight) that starts in one timezone, and ends in another!
Yup.
2) if I am planning a conference call across timezones, i.e. if I have a phone meeting with a matthew and bobby. In the conference call case, I would expect the event to list all the times for all the parties involved: (12:00 noon my calendar time, 2:00pm matthews time)
Interesting point. I would only want to see this while planning though. Otherwise I dont care about what time it is for other people.
Another example of why I would not want any calendar changing time zones without my explicit control:
I agree, I would never want that either. The original case was what to set the timezone through IP only the first time that someone hits Scooby. Scooby is a webapp, and as such has no access to the system's timezone, even though you can get the offset through Javascript and a 3 letter descriptor, which is not enough.
The other scenario that was brought up was when the app noticed that you switched timezones somehow, and even then it would ask you, and hopefully only once!
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