[Design] [Dogfood] Default TZ and interop

[Brian Kirsch]

+1
I think this is a valid concern.

-Brian


Philippe Bossut wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm going to make a plea for changing the default behavior we 
> currently have (namely, using "floating" TZ) and ask for using the 
> default system TZ. I know I'm negating a previous opinion of mine but 
> I just got really confused in a recent scenario and think less 
> knowledgeable users will be even more confused.
>
> Scenario:
> - I received an invite from a 3rd party. This invite showed up as an 
> email in my IMAP InBox.
> - Chandler correctly detected and parsed the VCALENDAR data
> - Las, because I didn't check "Use Timezones" in the view menu, the 
> event was displayed using its raw GMT time, i.e., 8 hours ahead, i.e, 
> out of view on my calendar...
> - For a while, I thought the calendar was broken, I started logging a 
> bug and it's only when I read the vcalendar data myself that I 
> realized that it was a TZ issue. I turned TZ on in Chandler, set it to 
> PST (which it does automatically) and the event displayed in the right 
> place... no bug...
>
> Take away: I'm afraid that this scenario will be fairly common with 
> initial Chandler users and that it will be counted against us as an 
> "Interoperability" issue. The bug is very shallow but since people 
> using all the default options will run into it, this is a concern. I 
> think default options should be set so that the system "just works" in 
> the most common cases.
>
> Proposal: When TZ is not turned on, Chandler should use the current 
> system TZ instead of floating as a default. People who wants floating 
> (i.e. people moving around across TZ but wanting to maintain their own 
> TZ bubble) will have to turn TZ on and set "floating" if they want to.
>
> Thoughts?
> - Philippe
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