[Using Sakai] Tools that are timezone-aware?

[Branden Visser]

The Forums tool has issues with timezones [1]. As far as I know, Forums 
is not deprecated.. I have a patch for the JIRA that I'm planning on 
posting in the near future. I'm currently running through time zone 
issues for my institution.

The Polls tool in an earlier version of the 2.5.x branch did not reflect 
timezone preferences either [2]. I think David Horowitz has fixed this 
in the maintenance branch, though.

If you're using Etudes' JForum (2.4) or Melete (2.5), they are not 
honouring preferred time zones.

I have reports that the Wiki tool (2.5.2) is not reflecting Timezone 
changes, I haven't reached this one yet.

We've confirmed that all the other tools we commonly use here are 
honouring timezone preferences.

If you're aiming to make timezone handling a little less confusing for 
users, you might also want to look at and comment/vote for SAK-7802.

Hope that helps,
Branden

[1] http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-13607
[2] http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-12838

Beth Kirschner wrote:
> Hi Katie,
> 
>     The discussion tool has been officially deprecated, so I'm not  
> sure that it will see much support to fix this problem. All other  
> tools, to my knowledge, do make use of the timezone preference though.  
> If you find any that don't (excepting discussions), I'd write it up as  
> a bug.
> 
> - Beth
> 
> On Oct 28, 2009, at 4:48 PM, Katie Golus wrote:
> 
>> We have campuses in two timezones and individuals in many more  
>> regions.  We've discovered that not all of the tools seem to adapt  
>> to the timezone settings that a user sets in Preferences (Discussion  
>> Forums being the main culprit).  This is especially problematic for  
>> the campuses that are in a different timezone than our Sakai servers.
>>
>> Does anyone know of a source of information on which tools are  
>> timezone-aware (or more importantly, which aren't)?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Katie
>> _____________________
>> Katie Golus, Ed.M.
>> Instructional Designer
>> Antioch University
>> 801 Garden Street, Suite 101
>> Santa Barbara, CA  93101-1581
>> 805-962-8179 x161
>> kgolus at antioch.edu
>>
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