[kronolith] Re: [horde] kronolith: adjusting for user vs. system time zone

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Mark Bennett <bennettm+horde at mailsnare.net>:

> I terms of a more comprehensive solution, my opinion is that storing dates in
> UTC on the backend would simplify things in the long run. It seems like the
> conversion to and from UTC would best take place in the actual back-end
> drivers so that the rest of Kronolith can just not worry about it.

That's putting the responsibility for knowing the current timezone into the
backends, though, which feels like the wrong decision to me. It seems better
for the backends to just return UTC.

> When a user creates an alarm that is part of a shared calendar maybe 
> have a checkbox that let's them indicate to Kronolith that it should 
> use "absolute time" -- meaning the alarm would trigger at the same 
> time for everyone regardless of their local time zone?

That seems a little backwards to me. And it still doesn't address cases other
than alarms.

-chuck

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