On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 5:41 PM, David Rubin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Fabian Rodriguez <[email protected]> wrote: >> Dan Trevino wrote: >> [..] >> >>> 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. >> >> Ahem... a team may span several time zones! Just sayin' :) > > But an event will not.. ;-p > > If you are having an event in more then one location surely that > counts as 2 events similar to how each loco has their own Global Jam > events. > > I agree with Efrain why not just store all times in UTC and each event > can have a offset attribute and when you display the event you take > into account the offset, Each loco team can have default offset to > make it easier for event creators. > > David > > --
I'm not sure that anyone is arguing UTC for storage. But the end user needs to see a local time. When I direct people to register for a local event, I dont want them guessing about or having to calculate the correct time to show up. Dan --- Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Open Standards! -- loco-contacts mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
