[Building Sakai] Can we get rid of Daylight Savings/Time Zone indication from Calendar and Schedule interfaces? Proposing SAK-24204

[Keli Sato Amann]

Hello,
I was working with our developer Hugh to fix a Calendar widget 2-day view we had created locally, and he pointed out that the problem is more widespread.

When I create an event in Schedule for Nov 4, which is after daylight savings ends on November 3, the time itself is accurate, however, the label itself is not! If you create the event while it is Daylight Savings time, then -DT will be used throughout your interface, even if the event you are creating is after we've reverted to standard time. 

So for instance, right now, there is a PDT label almost everywhere in the Schedule and Calendar interface even for events after nov 3, with only two exceptions:  My Workspace Calendar widget>View by Week, Month.

We are using 2.9 but apparently this has been a problem since at least 2.6. No one has noticed, but I can imagine an instructor or student getting very confused. We are lucky no one has noticed, but it could lead to a situation of a missed deadline or event--I'm hoping we can get our fix in before Daylight Savings ends Nov 3.

The easiest thing to do would be to get rid of any indication of daylight savings time or standard time from the interface (authoring and display) and just assume that users know what time zone their preferences indicate. Can anyone think of a reason why this is not a good idea, because we'd probably want to contribute this back (2.10 if there is time)? 

I've got one JIRA up,  SAK-24204. Can you indicate there if you think this is a good idea and I will break it out into subtasks?

Keli Amann
User Experience Specialist
Academic Computing Services, Stanford University