[Cosmo-dev] Re: [Design] Design] [Cosmo] Login-related workflows update

[Jeremy Epstein]

A choice may be fine, but you should still pre-populate that choice with 
a best guess-- there could be many items in that list.

With a couple of heuristics in place, I believe its possible to make the 
right choice 90% of the time.  Not only that but if there are 24 choices 
in the list its a long one to navigate. I am also  assuming that you 
will not force users to distinguish between PST and PDT-- as a point of 
convention that should be done auto-magically-- i.e. a user chooses 
"pacific time" or some such thing and the correct time(daylight savings 
or not)  is calculated.

There is maybe a month or so of time on a calendar where daylight 
savings time might be difficult to interpret from offsets alone.


Bobby Rullo wrote:
> +1
> On Nov 14, 2006, at 5:28 PM, Jeffrey Harris wrote:
>
>> +1 to prompting users the first time they log in.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Jeffrey
>>
>> Matthew Eernisse wrote:
>>> Unfortunately, I think the answer to number 2 below might be 'not
>>> exactly,' since a given UTC offset could be the same for multiple
>>> timezones -- purely by happenstance. For example, CDT and EST both have
>>> the same offset in minutes.