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

[Bobby Rullo]

On Dec 5, 2006, at 2:41 PM, Brian Moseley wrote:

> On 12/5/06, Bobby Rullo <br at osafoundation.org> wrote:
>
>> Yes, but there a lot of workflow issues to address with this like:
>
> i'm talking about chandler. either it can set a timezone on the
> collection, or it can't. i don't really care how it chooses what to
> set or whether to set anything at all. i'm simply saying that we don't
> need to go burrowing through the sharer's server account details to
> find any such information.
>

Well, this is a design discussion,  so the whole point is to care  
about how it gets set and how the existence of such an attribute  
affects user workflow. Just because an attribute exists doesn't mean  
it's a great idea to have a UI affordance in your product for it. And  
if you do have such an affordance, my questions are valid whether we  
are talking about Cosmo or Chandler since neither right now has such  
a setting.

>>         3) I am viewing BCM's calendar which has a timezone of  
>> PST, but I am
>> in New York - how do I tell the UI that I want to view stuff in EST
>> regardless  of what the collection timezone is?
>
> priscilla is concerned with the cosmo-ui-user-is-not-logged-in use
> case. i think it's fair to say that if you can't be bothered to create
> an account and log in, you don't get to look at the calendar in any
> timezone other than the one the sharer specified.
> _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

I actually was talking about the logged in user, but I guess logged  
the users' timezone setting would just override whatever the calendar  
collection setting.

bobby