Can you please add the comments to the bug so we can have all of the comments in one place when we make a decision.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/loco-directory/+bug/531970 Laura -- http://www.lczajkowski.com http://wiki.ubuntu.com/czajkowski skype: lauraczajkowski --------- Original Message -------- From: Ubuntu local community team LoCo contacts <[email protected]> To: Ubuntu local community team LoCo contacts <[email protected]> Subject: Re: LoCo Directory developers would like some input Date: 25/03/10 16:07 > Whats the potential of just letting the event organizer enter the time > with timezone, then store that value in the DB as UTC along with the > timezone that it was entered against. Then when a user visits the page > use Javascript and Ajax to store against that users session there > timezone, and just change out all the times to display as there > timezone. And just as a safety for when you don't know a users > timezone. ie the initial request to the site. Just display the time in > the timezone that it was entered against. Just make sure to include > the TZ info when displaying the time. > > This does add a bit of work on a developer side but does benefit event > organizers and anyone browsing the site. > > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Dan Trevino <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Laura Czajkowski <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Aloha! > >> > >> As many of you know the LoCo directory is up and running and with that > >> is the events section. Many teams have added their Global Jam details > >> to it, well done it's looking great! I'm posting here as the developers > >> would like some feed back on the below issue, I've included the bug this > >> related to, please, please add your comments to the bug if you have any > >> thoughts on it. > >> > >> Currently, team event times in loco.ubuntu.com are treated as local time > >> for the location of the event. However, loco.ubuntu.com itself runs on > >> UTC time. > >> This poses a problem when we try to calculate "past" or "future" events, > >> as we don't necessarily know what timezone offset the local event is using. > >> > >> The simplest solution, from a development perspective, is to threat team > >> event times as UTC time, not the team's local time. However, there is > >> concern that this will be inconvenient or overly burdensome on event > >> organizers and attendees. > >> > >> The must user friendly solution will require calculating timezones based > >> on venue data, or requiring the user to specify the timezone for each > >> event themselves. > >> > >> This will require significant code changes on the back end. > >> > >> Our question to the community is, what would be the impact on your use > >> of loco.ubuntu.com for planning local events, if times were entered and > >> displayed in UTC,instead of local time. If the burden is not great, we > >> will do that. If the burden is enough to significantly impact usage, we > >> will go the more difficult (for us) route. > >> > >> The bug that we are discussing is > >> > >> > >> Please add all of your comments to this bug! > >> > >> Laura > >> > >> -- > >> > >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/czajkowski > >> http://www.lczajkowski.com > >> Skype: lauraczajkowski > >> > > > > The target audience for this needs to see local times. > > > > Just thinking out loud here, each of the LoCo teams should already be > > associated with one-to-many timezone(s). Why not just ask the event > > creator to specify it? > > > > For my case, when I create a new event for Florida, I should see a > > drop down with two timezones, Eastern and Central. California or > > France or India may not see the drop down because they only have one. > > > > If nobody wants to go through the small data entry task of entering > > teams and their associated TZ, then just allow the team admin(s) to > > select default timezone(s) available for their team. > > > > Dan > > --- > > Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Open Standards! > > > > -- > > loco-contacts mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts > > > > > > -- > Nick Verbeck - NerdyNick > ---------------------------------------------------- > NerdyNick.com > SkeletalDesign.com > VivaLaOpenSource.com > Coloco.ubuntu-rocks.org > > -- > loco-contacts mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts > ________________________________________________ Message sent using UebiMiau 2.7.10 -- loco-contacts mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
