[Design] [Dogfood] Default TZ and interop

[Mimi Yin]

What if we said, Turn on timezones for all of your events?
Or Assign timezones to all of your events?

On Sep 11, 2006, at 3:59 PM, Pieter Hartsook wrote:

> I think the term "timezone support" in NOT intuitively clear for a new
> user. I think the initial alert asking the user to select a choice of
> options needs to be framed with more detail about what is different in
> the user experience with TZ turned on, or turned off so the user can
> make an informed decision without leaving the alert to go read the
> manual (assuming we even had one).
>
> Pieter
>
> On 9/11/06, Mimi Yin <mimi at osafoundation.org> wrote:
>> That sounds like a good way to differentiate between:
>> a) people who haven't turned on timezones because they don't know it
>> exists
>> b) people who specifically don't want timezone support.
>>
>> What should we say,
>>
>> <EVENT TITLE> is assigned to a specific timezone. Would you like to
>> turn on timezone support for all of your events?
>>
>> [ ] Never ask me again.                 [Okay] [Cancel]
>>
>> Mimi
>>
>> On Sep 10, 2006, at 8:29 AM, Jeffrey Harris wrote:
>>
>> > I wonder, though, if perhaps we should have a warning displayed the
>> > first time a time-zoned event appears on your calendar, prompting
>> > you to
>> > turn on timezones (or check a box to never ask me this again)?
>> > That way
>> > we advertise the feature in an only moderately intrusive way for
>> > people
>> > who were expecting it to be turned on?
>> >
>> > Sincerely,
>> > Jeffrey
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