[katello-devel] Timezone for users

[Jason Rist]

On Thu 26 Jan 2012 06:55:12 AM MST, Lukas Zapletal wrote:
> Hello,
>
> we have an issue with timezone in the CLI and we ended in a discussion
> how to handle it.
>
> So for the CLI case we are able to determine local timezone and convert
> everything for the user. The question is how what the plans are for the
> UI portion. I guess web browsers do not send TZ information in a
> request, apps can only guess from their geo information.
>
> The usual approach is to let users to set their own timezones for each
> account. If you accept this for UI, we would like to leverage this also
> in the CLI. I can imagine users using the CLI on a server in a different
> timezone. This would give them flexibility of setting what they really
> want to see independent of the client machine.
>
> Mike/Bryan please decide if this is a must-have feature. If not, we will
> just show times in the local client TZ. Not sure what UI will do / is
> doing.
>
> LZ
>

IMO this is a post v1 feature unless we have something in particular 
that relies heavily on standardized times.

-J

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