[Using Sakai] Tools that are timezone-aware?

[Vivie Sinou]

Branden, et al ~

Adding support for time zone is already in our Jira for Jforum, Melete and
Mneme. We hope to address this in the spring, 2010, as it affects the
(truly) distant learners of our colleges.

Best, 
Vivie 

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Vivie Sinou 
Executive Director, Etudes, Inc.
http://etudes.org/

 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org 
>[mailto:sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf 
>Of Branden Visser
>Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 8:01 AM
>To: Beth Kirschner
>Cc: sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org
>Subject: Re: [Using Sakai] Tools that are timezone-aware?
>
>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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