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

[Gregory Guthrie]

Yes, I hadn't really realized that this was not working the way I thought, nor of any good solutions!

I set some hand-in deadlines so that students are not up all  night with assignments, but then realized that for off-campus students the TZ issues interfered with that goal.
Hmm...
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From: Matthew Jones [mailto:matthew at longsight.com]
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2013 9:21 AM
To: Neal Caidin
Cc: Gregory Guthrie; sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: Re: [Using Sakai] Time zones, relative instead of global?

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<mailto: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<mailto: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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