[OH-Dev] Calendaring with time zones!

[Clara Raubertas]

Also, I give permission for all my modifications to calagator (these and any
future merge requests) to be shared/modified/etc under the MIT license.

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Clara Raubertas
<clara.raubertas at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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