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

[Mimi Yin]

Oh sorry, I misspoke, I meant apply timezones to all events in your  
Chandler, except for the ones explicitly shared to as Floating by  
other people.

On Dec 8, 2006, at 4:00 PM, Jeffrey Harris wrote:

> Hi Mimi,
>
> Mimi Yin wrote:
>> On Dec 7, 2006, at 11:49 AM, Jeffrey Harris wrote:
>>
>>> It's not clear to me, though, what happens when you say OK.  Do we
>>> convert existing floating events to have timezones?  Or does this  
>>> really
>>> mean "assign timezones to new events you create"?
>>
>> No to existing events in that collection.
>
> Changing timezones from floating on a collection by collection basis
> seems problematic.  What if you drag floating events from other
> collections into that already converted collection?  We'd need to  
> start
> tracking which collections have been converted and which haven't, that
> starts to sound complicated.
>
>>> I don't think there's a perfect way to deal with floating events  
>>> that
>>> already exist, since they could be shared events coming from  
>>> someone who
>>> wants them floating...
>>
>> Hmmm. Well hopefully with this prompt approach, this will be rare.  
>> Can
>> we tell if it's an event from somebody else and special case those  
>> events?
>
> Well, I suppose we could change all events that don't live in an  
> already
> shared collection.  I think if we pop up this prompt before we  
> subscribe
> to a shared collection, mostly people who are timezoners will switch
> before they even have a chance to subscribe to any floating events.
>
> Sincerely,
> Jeffrey
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