I actually just ran into this when I was adding an event. It was a little confusing because it said local time but on the events listing it says "UTC."
I think we should allow someone to pick what timezone the event is. We could prepick it maybe? like Darcy suggested but still allow it to be picked. After user picks the timezone and date/time, we could display the converted UTC via Javascript (or such). Or a preview type deal that will show what it will look like once saved. That might exist already in that django timezone code. I am new to python and django :) Timezone: [Dropdown of GMT/UTC like launchpad's timezone picker] Begins: [ Calendar bit you have ] [ time ] (_what this is in UTC_) Ends: [ Calendar bit you have ] [ time ] (_what this is in UTC_) Then store them all UTC in the DB. ________Example________ Timezone: dropdown: value=GMT-5? US - Virginia * Begins: 2010-10-20 16:00 EDT (2010-10-20 20:00 UTC) ** Ends: 2010-10-20 17:00 EDT (2010-10-20 21:00 UTC) ** * I picked GMT because that's what I'm familiar with but if we show the option's text that's understandable to the user like "US - Virginia" then it doesn't matter what the value is. Launchpad has that very understandable and we've used it to get to the loco.ubuntu.com so I'd stick with that :) ** Done via another dateformat on same value from db On the events listing page maybe we can have "view in [timezone]". If we want to get really fancy, we could use the timezone from launchpad. :) -- 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
