[Using Sakai] Time zones, relative instead of global?

[Matthew Jones]

Yea, for sure you'd have to have something that disabled the users from
changing their time zone information and relying on it from a provider
otherwise everyone would set it to whatever gave them the most time. (-12)

It seems like this would always have some element of unfairness though,
even if you had the release dates also locked to this time zone.




On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Neal Caidin <neal.caidin at apereo.org> wrote:

> That makes a lot of sense to me, to support distance learning, MOOCs, and
> any other model that engages students over multiple time zones.
>
> Thanks,
> Neal
>
> On Jul 29, 2013, at 9:28 AM, Gregory Guthrie <guthrie at mum.edu> wrote:
>
>  I want to have assignments due by some local time deadlines, e.g. by
> 10:00 every night.****
> But when I specify a time in the assignments tool, it makes it a global
> time zone.****
> ** **
> Any way to have time zones adjust to the local user?****
> I’m not even sure how one would do that, unless their location was part of
> their identity management information, but assuming we knew that, it would
> vary by each student.****
> ** **
> I wondered if anyone else had wanted something similar and/or had any
> ideas.****
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