I think there are use cases for both local & UTC (offline vs online being a good example). However I think local is a better default.
I suggest this: (1) Each loco team has a timezone set. Note: Timezones are not "GMT+Xhrs", but things from tzdata like "Europe/Dublin", Otherwise you won't be able to deal with summer time/daylight savings time. (1a) What LoCo teams cover more than 1 timezone? What should we do here? Have a list of timezones for this loco team (as opposed to just one) (2) When adding an event there's a radio button under the time that says "( ) Local time ( ) UTC", with Local time being selected by default. Changing this radio button obviously means to change the timezone of the event. Note: A LoCo might be in summer time when an event is created, but it might have changed to non-sunmner time when the event occurs, so the UTC offset might change from when the event is created and when it takes place. (3) Events stored in the database should probably be in some timezone independent format, like UTC, but this is less important. (4) When viewing an event, if the creator entered it in UTC, show it in UTC (with the "UTC"/"+0000" suffix), if the creator entered it in local time show it in local time. Luckily python has decent timezone support. -- Time of events is shown in UTC, not local time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/610416 You received this bug notification because you are a member of loco- directory-dev, which is the registrant for loco-directory. Status in LoCo Directory: Confirmed Bug description: The events page of the loco directory shows times in UTC (i.e. +0000 timezone), example: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/202/detail/ It should instead show times in local time for each loco. Many people coming to events are going to be coming from the local area, and will all be in the same timezone, so there is no need to include the timezone information. Secondly, timezones are confusing for many people, and showing event start times in UTC as opposed to local time forced people to do mental arithmetic when they see an event page. There is very little benefit from showing all times in UTC, and many drawbacks. Local time (for the LoCo) has more benefits and less drawbacks. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~loco-directory-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~loco-directory-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
