[Design] [Cosmo][Proposal] Time-zone on Cosmo UI

Jeremy Epstein eggfree at eggfree.net
Tue Dec 5 13:41:16 PST 2006


Which is worse?
   1) having to reset the timezone 100% of time with an annoying alert
   2) the possibility you might have to reset the timezone some of the time.

A CC could change their view of the ecalendar.


Bobby Rullo wrote:
>>
>> What if any user signs up for a Cosmo account, they have to pick a 
>> working time-zone as part of sign up. This includes signing up for a 
>> Cosmo account for Chandler too. This would mean all Cosmo accounts 
>> would have a working time-zone. When a Casual Collaborator user 
>> without a Cosmo account clicks on a URL/ticket, the working time-zone 
>> used is from the Chandler user's Cosmo account to set the default 
>> time-zone on the calendar canvas. If an account is in floating 
>> time-zone, give it a working time-zone so it's still possible to 
>> figure out where to put individual events with time-zones.
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> The problem with this is that when the user who created the calendar 
> changes their account's timezone, everyone all of a sudden sees 
> something different.
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> For example, I create a collection while my timezone is set to PST for 
> my Cosmo workmates to share, some of who don't want a Cosmo account. 
> Then I go to NY to work there a while and switch my timezone to EST 
> and all the CC's viewing the calendar see all the events in NY time.
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