[IxDA Discuss] Handling Timezones and DST

[Alvin Tan]

Dave,

3. does collaboration exist across time zones?

This is a very good point to consider. The project I'm involved with is actually a reservation system and we are deciding to or not to include time zone settings for the guest/reserver. Just today, I was playing with GMail and Yahoo Mail and they do time stamping by getting the client/user OS time settings and use this to get the time difference. The times reflected on the client are then "adjusted" times from this difference as such it works like a desktop application (at least from my initial observation). I'm starting to like this approach since this will also lessen the settings the user has to deal with. 

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=7992&topic=1505

Alvin

----- Original Message ----
From: Dave (Heller) Malouf <dave at ixda.org>
To: discuss at ixda.org
Sent: Wednesday, June 7, 2006 1:52:50 AM
Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Handling Timezones and DST

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I think more information is needed here:
1. what is the overall purpose of time tracking?
2. is this a collaborative space?
3. does collaboration exist across time zones?
etc. etc.

Our application is quite complex b/c time is actually contains legal 
liability, so messin' w/ timezones gets yucky. I don't like our current 
solution for it, but we are in the midst of making some changes. We 
haven't come to consensus yet, but we do have a sense of the level of 
complexity from both a technical and a user experience point of view.

-- dave


Alvin Tan wrote:
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>
> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering how you guys have designed or implemented time zones and DST in your web application projects? Do you guys give the users the option to use DST - if so, where do you base the DST difference?
>
> Thanks,
> Alvin
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