Mimi,
Right now in the Cosmo UI events created in the timezone UI by
default have no timezone, so you could say if any event in the
collection has a timezone, then you should alert the user if they do
not have timezones enabled.
However, if the events in the calendar have all the same timezone,
can we still tell if the shar-ER was using timezones or not? My
understanding was that even when the UI claimed to be timezone-
free, events were still stored with a timezone.
Mimi
On Dec 1, 2006, at 5:17 PM, Mitchell Kapor wrote:
On Nov 30, 2006, at 12:03 PM, Priscilla Chung wrote:
I sent this out last week and wanted to follow up if anyone had
any last comments.
Thanks, -Priscilla
On Nov 21, 2006, at 12:16 PM, Priscilla Chung wrote:
Mimi send out a summary of the time-zones on the Cosmo UI:
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-November/
005724.html
I just wanted to pull it out of the 'Login-related workflows
update' thread to confirm the direction we're taking:
*Not Logged-in Cosmo*
+ The calendar canvas will be viewed in floating time-zone (ie.
if you have 2 events at 2:00pm PST and 2:00pm EST, they both
show up at 2:00pm)
My two cents. It would be better if this were flagged with an
alert to the user to suggest they turn on time zones. An event at
2:00 PM PST and an event at 2:00 PM EST do not happen at the same
time. Showing them in the same slot and doing nothing else is a
very bad idea.
This could happen if the user is subscribing to a calendar in
which events are being entered with different associated time zones.
Maybe a published calendar should have a "suggested" time zone
which is used in just this case - when the user hasn't set a time
zone view and there are event sin more than time zone.
Maybe this is gilding the lily, but then I fall back to saying the
user should at least be alerted.
+ Clicking on an individual event will display the time-zone
information it was created in the detail view (ie. PST, EST etc).
*Logged-into Cosmo*
+ If time-zone support is turned off, the calendar canvas
displays events in floating time. Selecting on individual events
displays no information about time-zones in the detail view.
There are no labels for the calendar canvas, the collection and
for the individual item.
+ If time-zone support is turned on, then the user will make a
selection from the pull down (where Floating is one of the
options). Based on the selection, the events will adjust
accordingly on the calendar canvas. When selecting on the
individual events the time-zone information will appear in the
detail view.
*Note: When you subscribe to a collection and add it to your
Cosmo account:
*If time-zone support is turned on*
+ Based on the selection, the events will adjust accordingly on
the calendar canvas. When selecting on the individual events the
time-zone information will appear in the detail view based on
the time-zone it was created in.
*If time-zone support is turned off*
+ The events appear positioned on the canvas in floating time.
Selecting on individual events displays no information about
time-zones in the detail view. There are no labels for the
calendar canvas, the collection and for the individual item.
Understandably, this last case (if TZ is turned off) may not be
as fluid as we'd like, especially when you just saw the time-
zone before subscribing. I'm just going to file a bug to revisit
the time-zone issue for future.
-Priscilla
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