[Building Sakai] Timezone for events

[Seth Theriault]

Nico Coetzee wrote:

> I do not think its a database problem, but I think it has 
> something to do with the 
> org.sakaiproject.time.impl.BasicTimeService.java.  It is set up 
> in init to set up dates according to GMT time, and all tool's 
> uses this but the tools also looks at the local users time zone 
> preferences in My Workspace, Preferences and adjust the time 
> accordingly example calendar.  As far as I can see the 
> ClusterEvenetrackingService and the UsageSessionApdaptor, does 
> not do the adjustment, and takes the local time (which is 
> correct) and then converts it to GMT.

A Jira for this has been logged and action already taken:

http://jira.sakaiproject.org/KNL-734

As I think about this more, I am starting to think that the 
logging of times in GMT is an intentional design choice and 
perhaps we don't want to be mucking with this.

Seth