#20663: Admin Now and Today buttons use confusing time / timezone
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Reporter: imfletcher | Owner: nobody
Type: Bug | Status: new
Component: contrib.admin | Version: 1.5
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Changes (by aaugustin):
* stage: Unreviewed => Accepted
Comment:
I'm a bit surprised that you set TIME_ZONE = 'UTC'. I suppose your
application is used by users in multiple time zones, and UTC is the least
controversial choice?
The admin buttons should use the "current time zone". Then it's up to
developers to ensure that their users have the correct "current time
zone". This is how Django supports multiple time zones. If you don't do
anything special, the "current time zone" is the same as the "default time
zone" defined by the TIME_ZONE setting.
Then all we need is a way to determine the current time in an arbitrary
time zone in JavaScript. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of a JavaScript
library to access the tzinfo database. If there's one, I'm not sure how to
maintain it up to date. This is an open problem!
I'm accepting the ticket because it's clearly an UX bug. Now, we need a
plan to fix it, and such a plan should be discussed on the
DevelopersMailingList first.
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