Recent activity on permatime

  • tim marked a task as done 153 over 1 year ago

    EST == Chicago but should not...

    fixed for now by making EST actually mean the same as EST5EDT and Eastern

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  • tim created a message over 1 year ago.

    deployment

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  • tim added a comment 134 over 1 year ago

    add "copy to clipboard" link to urls

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  • tim reassigned a task to tim 134 over 1 year ago.

    add "copy to clipboard" link to urls

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  • tim created a message over 1 year ago.

    deployment

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  • tim created a message over 1 year ago.

    deployment

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  • tim added a comment 153 almost 2 years ago

    EST == Chicago but should not...

    Here's a visual demo:

    Having researched it, EST is weirdly built into the Olson db that we use (via the tzinfo gem). No other standard time is built in (PST, CST). There is also EST5EDT (which is the same as US/Eastern).

    If we want to remove it, it's a bit of work (first time we've wanted to remove from the Olson supplied list, rather than add). Ideally it would be possible to add some kind of warning to using it. But that's tricky too.

    People often make this kind of mistake with timezones, and that's, after all, why we made permatime, so maybe it's worth thinking about one of the two above solutions (or a better one...).

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  • tim added a comment 153 almost 2 years ago

    EST == Chicago but should not...

    No, I think permatime.com is behaving correctly. (and latest changes won't have touched this).

    EST is really confusing. In the States, it means "Eastern Standard Time" and isn't used by anyone in the summer but is the same time as Central Daylight Time (hence the situation). But people use it to mean the "Eastern" timezone.

    Add to the confusion the fact that Australia also has EST (sometimes abbrviated AEST.

    I actually think EST shouldn't be in the "Locations" (there is one called EST5EDT which is equivalent to US/Eastern. Will look into it.

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  • alex reassigned a task to tim 153 almost 2 years ago.

    EST == Chicago but should not...

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  • alex created a task for alex 153 almost 2 years ago.

    EST == Chicago but should not...


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  • tim created a message almost 2 years ago.

    deployment

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  • tim added a comment almost 2 years ago

    deployment

    think it makes only a little difference to users, but it stops us the errors occurring (fingers crossed)!

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  • alex added a comment almost 2 years ago

    deployment

    "more fixes for unnecessary forgery protection" - that sounds like a worthwhile effort :D

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  • tim added a comment almost 2 years ago

    deployment

    also:
    * more fixes for unnecessary forgery protection (Tim Diggins)

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  • tim created a message almost 2 years ago.

    deployment

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  • tim created a message over 2 years ago.

    deployment

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  • tim created a message over 2 years ago.

    deployment

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  • tim marked a task as done 143 over 2 years ago.

    When people from a non-integral timezone (Adelaide, India, Riyadh) arrive at the site, the 'guess' is based on an integral timezone. We could do better than this!...

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  • tim marked a task as done 146 over 2 years ago.

    Make the "all locations" list split out non-integral timezones so it is clearer that these are listed (so there are offsets for +8:45, +9.5 for example (I think this could help ...

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  • tim moved a task from 'Next' to 'Someday maybe' 149 over 2 years ago.

    Note sites that need permatime (not sure what we should do about them...)...

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  • tim created a message over 2 years ago.

    deployment

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  • tim marked a task as done 152 over 2 years ago.

    Recognize a time zone for New Zealand (GMT +13)

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  • tim marked a task as done 144 over 2 years ago.

    add "Australia / Central Australian Time" to name db

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  • imathis added a comment 152 over 2 years ago

    Recognize a time zone for New Zealand (GMT +13)

    Right, Sorry about that ST business. You're absolutely correct. Silly official NZ websites.

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  • tim moved a task from 'Uncategorized' to 'Next' 152 over 2 years ago.

    Recognize a time zone for New Zealand (GMT +13)

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  • tim added a comment 152 over 2 years ago

    Recognize a time zone for New Zealand (GMT +13)

    As a current workaround: NZ works

    (NZST isn't quite right - cause the whole point of permatime is to not have to worry about when it's standard and when it's daylight time...).
    Normally the capital city / biggest city should be listed - Aukland is listed but not Wellington (capital).

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  • imathis added a comment 152 over 2 years ago

    Recognize a time zone for New Zealand (GMT +13)

    The official timezone format is NZST, but neither that nor New Zealand show up in the autocomplete.

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  • imathis created a task for tim 152 over 2 years ago.

    Recognize a time zone for New Zealand (GMT +13)

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  • tim created a message over 2 years ago.

    deployment

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  • tim marked a task as done 151 over 2 years ago

    Can no longer reorder locations on "now" (add locations) because of fix for zorder...

    did this see http://permatime.com/now http://permatime.com/reorder

    reopen if you hate

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