User API, please give us access to user's timezone

[Henrik Joreteg]

In line with simplifying development it would be awesome to have
access to a user's timezone info through the user API.

Imagine having a super simple way to convert a time in the datastore
to whatever the logged in user's timezone was. I guess there would
have to be a default setting too.

Just a thought.

[David Symonds]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Henrik <hjor...@gmail.com> wrote:

> In line with simplifying development it would be awesome to have
> access to a user's timezone info through the user API.

That would be awesome, I agree. File it on the issue tracker.

Dave.

[Ian Lewis]

... then give us the link so we can star it ;)

2008/6/25 David Symonds <dsym...@gmail.com>:

[Gadi]

Great feature. I suggest you open a request issue for that so we could
vote for it.

[g-man]

From what I've read, doing a local timezone is not a simple issue.
That's why most do {{datetime|timesince}} relative to a timestamp
whenever possible.

Also, one professor has even suggested that the whole world abandon
timezones entirely and everybody just go with UTC, but that's another
story!

Guido covered it in his talk when he suggested adding 'tz.py' to your
program, and then doing the math based on a User object field before
the response is returned.

Anyway, I'm not sure how Gmail does it, but I don't think I was asked
for my timezone... there's lots of discussion on this topic out there
- Good Luck!