Paul, You seem to have a good grasp of the usability problem you describe and a sound strategy to solve it. You've even researched how modern web browser can help in improving this admin app feature.
I'm sure the project would accept a pull request implementing the changes you outline. Or if not, it would be a catalyst to get a solution for it into the code base sooner than later. Feel free to try your hand. Regards, On Tue, Oct 2, 2018, 6:19 PM Paul Tiplady <[email protected]> wrote: > Timezone handling in the Django admin is quite confusing when there are > users in multiple timezones -- does anyone have a good way of handling this? > > I'm using USE_TZ=True, TIME_ZONE='UTC', USE_I18N, USE_L10N. I have admin > users in US/Pacific and US/Eastern. > > When viewing a datetime field, users see the UTC time, with a note below > saying "Note: You are 7 hours behind server time". This is better than > nothing, but still quite sub-par for a 201x-era web UI. We really should be > localizing the timezones in the browser to the user's own time zone, and > submitting back to the app using TZ-aware timestamp strings. (It's possible > to pull the TZ unambiguously from a modern browser: > https://stackoverflow.com/a/37512371/37481). > > Any suggestions for getting round this? I'm wondering if there's a good > tz-aware datetime widget for the admin? Or perhaps a clean way of storing a > User.time_zone config property that could be used to localize the admin > cleanly. > > Cheers, > Paul > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/36a1bd2c-490d-4ad8-86f6-0af5425bb7f2%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/36a1bd2c-490d-4ad8-86f6-0af5425bb7f2%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAO7PdF9RE%2BGJ28SnPAUE%3DV2zwJO8b0NRdP2H6%2B%2BGuUxa91cSsg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
