[OH-Dev] Calendaring with time zones!

[Clara Raubertas]

I've pushed my changes to my github fork at clararaubertas/calagator, and
sent a pull request to the OpenHatch fork (jcsims/calagator).

A basic outline of what I did:
- When a user loads the site, the browser detects their timezone via
JavaScript and sets a cookie
- On each request, the server checks the cookie and sets the session time
zone appropriately (the yellow box on the front page now tells you what time
zone the session thinks you're in)
- All times are displayed in the user's local time (so if I'm in Chicago,
and someone in Boston has set up an IRC meeting at 8pm, the page will tell
me that the event starts at 7)
- When you input an event, you specify a timezone (so I could specify that
my IRC meeting is taking place in Chicago time, and then it's translated for
viewers in other timezones). This defaults to your own timezone as
determined by browser.

If anyone has any questions about this, email me! (Also, I'm definitely
interested in more coding sessions later...)

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:38 AM, Clara Raubertas <clara.raubertas at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Tomorrow morning I will try to finish it up and push what I have to github,
> as well as write up some of the details!
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org>wrote:
>
>> Clara, welcome to OH-Dev! (-:
>>
>> All: Clara has been hacking on https://openhatch.org/bugs/**issue577<https://openhatch.org/bugs/issue577>, adding time zone support to Calagator so
>> events.openhatch.org can show times in the visitor's local time.
>>
>> Clara:
>>
>> Would you be willing to write a note for the list explaining the strategy
>> you took on the time zone stuff, and how far it has gone so far?
>>
>> Also, I would be quite happy to have another hackathon!
>>
>> As per https://openhatch.org/wiki/0.**11.09<https://openhatch.org/wiki/0.11.09>, we (OpenHatch) are committed to do a release on Sep 30, so I'm hoping I
>> can include a time zone-ified calendar in the release notes. Even if not,
>> though, it'd be great to share updates on what you've been up to!
>>
>> -- Asheesh.
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