[Cosmo-dev] CosmoUI Timezone Proposal

[Matthew Eernisse]

Adam,

Thanks for chiming in on the list.

We're more-or-less done with the timezone work -- we have an 
API-compatible, timezone-enabled Date object. The code is here if you 
haven't had a chance to take a look:

http://svn.osafoundation.org/server/cosmo/trunk/cosmo/src/main/webapp/js/cosmo/datetime/ 


There are still some simplifications we'd like to do particularly with 
how users pick timezones.

A TZ picker, and some sensible aliases for things like "Pacific Time" 
would be much preferable to shoving all the exemplar cities from each 
Olson file into a select box, which is what we're doing now.

Adam L. Peller wrote:
> Hi Cosmo folks.  Just following up on this old thread, wondering how
> the Olson stuff was coming along.
> 
> We've been doing a lot of code reorg at Dojo, and we're now starting
> to discuss a DojoX project for extensions (experimental and stabile)
> and this project seems like it might find a good home there.  Is
> anyone interested in making a proposal?

Yes, all this TZ-enabled Date stuff I originally did with the intention 
of contributing it to Dojo -- and I would still very much like to see it 
makes its way into DojoX.

However right now we are extremely focused on the upcoming Preview 
release for Cosmo, so everybody's time is pretty limited. We're all very 
much 'down in it' trying to get this stuff out the door.

I see there are some sensible packaging/test requirements for extensions:

http://dojotoolkit.org/pipermail/dojo-contributors/2007-May/007382.html

I'm hoping after our Preview release, I'll have some time to make a 
proposal and begin packaging up the datetime stuff in a DojoX-correct way.

Thanks again for following up on this.


Matthew