[chandler-users] Wishlist and questions after a few weeks of intensive use

[Delphine Ménard]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 23:25, Mimi Yin <mimi at osafoundation.org> wrote:
> Hi Delphine,
>
> Thanks for answering my questions. More detailed responses to your time zone
> issue below...
>
> On Jul 28, 2008, at 4:50 AM, Delphine Ménard wrote:
>
>>> 2) Date and time display
>>> The display of time in the Date column is a bit confusing, as it
>>> displays the date, the time and ... the timezone? Not sure, it's
>>> confusing. Maybe change the color of the different display (grey the
>>> timezone display for example to differentiate it from the time of
>>> event display?)
>>>
>>> Hm, you are actually the first to mention this. Do you have a lot of
>>> events
>>> that display time zone? I'm wondering if you have run into the same
>>> problem
>>> as
>>> Giancarlo:
>>> http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-users/2008-July/002238.html
>>
>> Well, see the following screenshot to see what I am referring to.
>> http://test.notafish.org/temp/chandler_time_zones.png
>
> Oh that doesn't look good. By any chance, have you changed the time zone on
> your computer recently? It looks like Chandler is showing you that you last
> edited a bunch of items in a different time zone. (Those should probably
> just get translated into your "current" time zone so you don't have all that
> extra information cluttering up the Date column.)

Could it be that synching to Chandler hub (I use chandler on my
desktop and on my laptop) has messed with the time zones? I did change
time zones when I went to Egypt. This said I don't think I actually
changed the time on my computer, so that is not really an
explanation...

>
> We also aren't doing a good job of providing friendly abbreviations for time
> zones. Is GMT + 2:00 Central Europe? After chatting with Jeffrey
> (developer), we came up with a solution that should minimize when you're
> given time zone information and provide better abbreviations as well.
> https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12271

Well, big travellers like me use UTC as a reference point (it's GMT,
but with a "Universal Name") :-)
GMT +2 is Western Europe with daylight saving time (except UK and
Portugal which are UTC/GMT+1 in daylight saving time)
I am not sure I understood your "display" part of the bug, but GMT+ X
or UTC+X is, to me at least, the most rational way of displaying time
zones (because you never find the city you are really in...)

Cheers

Delphine


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