It might be best to convert things to UTC to start, and then provide the user options to convert those to their time zone. This would prevent problems when a server was migrated from the East coast to the West coast and similar issues.
Kenneth M. Kolano Enterprise Architecture Operations 908-423-4241 WS1B-51B -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Schmidt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 3:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: VOTE: Pubtime Fix This may or may not be related to this pubtime problem, but the issue at JRoller with weird pubtimes being set is due partially to the pubtime being reliant on the User's timezone setting. On the frontpage, posts are sorted by pubtime, mostly likely with the timezone of the server. This means that posts from someone in Turkey will be in the future as far as the server is concerned and not find their way to the frontpage. The same holds true with timezones in the past (a more serious issue), these posts never even make it to the frontpage. Is there a way that we can normalize things somewhere so that the server converts all pubtimes to the server's timezone while still letting the user post with their set timezone? If we set the pubtime to the server timezone, this would likely confuse the user, so I think it has to be a lower level. Thoughts? -Matt Dave Johnson wrote: > > +1 > > We've had many complaints about this one and I myself have been bitten > by Roller's odd-behavior here in the past. > > - Dave > > > On Sep 14, 2005, at 3:02 PM, Allen Gilliland wrote: > >> This is a very small feature/fix so I think we can do the proposal >> and vote all at the same time. >> >> http://www.rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Proposal_PubtimeFix >> >> Full details on the proposal page above. >> >> The real short version is that BSC users have been complaining a lot >> about the fact that the pubtime for entries is not actually set to >> the "publish" time when you start from a draft or take a long time >> writing your entry. To fix this we can have the pubtime remain unset >> (null) until the entry is actually published for the first time, at >> which point we set it to the current date/time. >> >> this will go into 2.0 >> >> -- Allen >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments, contains information of Merck & Co., Inc. (One Merck Drive, Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, USA 08889), and/or its affiliates (which may be known outside the United States as Merck Frosst, Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD and in Japan, as Banyu) that may be confidential, proprietary copyrighted and/or legally privileged. It is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named on this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and then delete it from your system. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
