This would still be great to have, but it'll be quite an undertaking. As others have mentioned, the most common way of doing this is to store the dates in UTC in the database, and then before displaying it to the user, converting it to that user's chosen timezone.
The annoying thing is that we'll need to track down every place in the code that a date is displayed to the user and do this conversion. A lot of these will have been passed through format_date(), so putting a conversion in there will cover all of those, but there are sure to be quite a few where format_date() was bypassed. We'll also need a one-time script to convert all the stored dates in the database from their current time to UTC. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mahara Contributors, which is subscribed to Mahara. Matching subscriptions: Subscription for all Mahara Contributors -- please ask on #mahara-dev or mahara.org forum before editing or unsubscribing it! https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/548311 Title: Support for Time Zones of users in Mahara Status in Mahara ePortfolio: Confirmed Bug description: Did a quick search here and couldn't easily find an existing request for timezone support. Unlike this eduforge tracker when I created my account, where I was prompted to confirm my time zone, there seems to be no such Time Zone support within the Mahara system and therefore I have to mentally adjust time stamps against forum, blog, and other posts. Hope this request can find its way into your todo list soon. Cheers, Peter B. There is a specification for this: https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/Developer_Area/Specifications_in_Development/timezones To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/548311/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mahara-contributors Post to : mahara-contributors@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mahara-contributors More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
