--On Tuesday, September 28, 2004 2:34 PM -0700 Lorin Hochstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Philip,
We're running into some time zone issues again with Hackystat. Our server lives in Maryland, and the students are working in San Diego. The Hackystat server is reporting all of the data collection times in EDT instead of PDT.
I assume this is a feature, not a bug, since time zone information is set on the server. However, I'd prefer to view the times from the point of view of the client: especially since they are also keeping paper logs, and their logs will be relative to their own time.
Understood. Currently, the hackystat.timezone property is only used for interpretation of the test data.
It would be really nice to be able to set time zones on a per-user basis. I really care only about the time zone that the user is working in: I don't care so much where the server is, or even where the machine they are working on is! The students in this class are currently doing their work on a machine in San Diego, but they may do their next assignment on a Cray X1 in Minnesota, assuming that Cray can run Hackystat sensors (no clue whether or not Crays can run Java). This means I'll have students in PDT working on a machine in CDT, with a Hackystat server in EDT.
Holy Time Warp, Batman! User-level configurability of timezone information is an interesting but non-trivial extension to the system. It definitely won't be in 6.2 or even the 6.3 release.
Also, is it possible to view Hackystat statistics on a whole class of students at the same time? For example, I'd like to be able to view a table of Active Time data for each student in the class. I've never done anything with the project-level stuff in Hackystat, and I don't even know if that will give me the kind of data that I want.
Your intuition is correct. The way to do this is to create a Project containing all the students in the class as members and including all of their workspaces for the chosen assignment. Then, create a Telemetry report to display Active Time data and trends. Check out the guided tour for details:
<http://hackydev.ics.hawaii.edu/hackyDevSite/guidedtour.jsp>
Cheers, Philip
