[Design] [Scooby] Managing Calendar/Timezone

[Jeremy Epstein]

John Townsend wrote:
>
> On Apr 20, 2006, at 6:23 AM, Mimi Yin wrote:
>
>> Many of the issues being hashed out on this thread are exactly the 
>> ones we discussed during 0.6 and finalized in January. Here is the 
>> thread in the list archive: 
>> http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-January/003965.html
>>
>> A few key things:
>>
>> 1. Not only do some people not care about timezones. They don't even 
>> want the calendar app to automatically assign their "home" timezone 
>> to the events they create. Instead, they manage timezones entirely in 
>> their head. Tuesday, I'm in New York, everything is in EST. Wednesday 
>> I'm in Chicago, everything is in Central time. And they want to be 
>> able to view their calendar like that. Unless we want to start 
>> supporting the ability to assign different timezones to different 
>> days of the week on the calendar, we need to have a 'No Timezones' 
>> option for users. This is what Chandler provides out of the box in 
>> the trunk build today.
>
> I get that.. but maybe I am missing something. Isn't it important for 
> the user who doesn't care about timezones to still provide data _with_ 
> timezones? After all, he is interacting with people who DO care about 
> timezones.

Its not about providing data, just seeing it. There are only certain 
specific events where I care. "conference call" is one type, "web ex" or 
"Internet conference" is another. Most of my events do not involve 
people in a different time zone.  In that sense I only want to see 
time-zones when at least one invited participant works in a different 
time zone than I (in order to be courteous about scheduling). You can 
think of this as a "jeremycentric" view of the world. The rest of the 
world can know what my timezone is, but I just don't care. As far as 
updating my timezone as I move around, I don't see how it helps me 
schedule, because I am scheduling before I travel. There is no way to 
set timezone on a week by week or day-by-day basis in any calendaring 
software I have used.

Jeremy