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

[Gregory Guthrie]

I'm not sure about the unfairness, if each had the same duration between release and due times, unless one had collusion with someone in an earlier time zone. I'm not much worried about that for assignments, although exams and quizzes will have the same issues!

It seems like at least the times should show the TZ they are indicated in, not shown currently.

And, while we are on this topic, I'd like to again suggest that having a visible time which is different than the Start time would be a good thing. It is one thing to be able to look ahead at all assignments over a period, and that is different than when student should start working on them - but these two are both the same now as the "Open" time.

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From: Matthew Jones [mailto:matthew at longsight.com]
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2013 9:21 AM
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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