LoCo Directory developers would like some input
Laura Czajkowski
laura at lczajkowski.com
Thu Mar 25 16:12:05 GMT 2010
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
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From: Ubuntu local community team LoCo contacts
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To: Ubuntu local community team LoCo contacts
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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 <dantrevino at gmail.com>
wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Laura Czajkowski
<laura at lczajkowski.com> 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
> >>
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> >>
> >
> > 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
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