John Townsend wrote:
On Apr 20, 2006, at 6:23 AM, Mimi Yin wrote:
Many of the issues being hashed out on this thread are exactly the
ones we discussed during 0.6 and finalized in January. Here is the
thread in the list archive:
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-January/003965.html
A few key things:
1. Not only do some people not care about timezones. They don't even
want the calendar app to automatically assign their "home" timezone
to the events they create. Instead, they manage timezones entirely in
their head. Tuesday, I'm in New York, everything is in EST. Wednesday
I'm in Chicago, everything is in Central time. And they want to be
able to view their calendar like that. Unless we want to start
supporting the ability to assign different timezones to different
days of the week on the calendar, we need to have a 'No Timezones'
option for users. This is what Chandler provides out of the box in
the trunk build today.
I get that.. but maybe I am missing something. Isn't it important for
the user who doesn't care about timezones to still provide data _with_
timezones? After all, he is interacting with people who DO care about
timezones.
Its not about providing data, just seeing it. There are only certain
specific events where I care. "conference call" is one type, "web ex" or
"Internet conference" is another. Most of my events do not involve
people in a different time zone. In that sense I only want to see
time-zones when at least one invited participant works in a different
time zone than I (in order to be courteous about scheduling). You can
think of this as a "jeremycentric" view of the world. The rest of the
world can know what my timezone is, but I just don't care. As far as
updating my timezone as I move around, I don't see how it helps me
schedule, because I am scheduling before I travel. There is no way to
set timezone on a week by week or day-by-day basis in any calendaring
software I have used.
Jeremy
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