[Zope3-dev] Re: Formatting of Created/Modified times

[Anthony Baxter]

>>> Steve Alexander wrote
> When my aunt in Australia downloads Zope 3 and goes through the "adding 
> folders and douments" tutorial, I don't want her to be confused when she 
> adds a new folder at 12 noon, and its modified time appears to be 2am.
> 
> Making casual developers need to say what timezone they are in, when 
> they have already configured their computer that way, is nonsense.
> 
> My opinion on this would change if browsers had a way of telling a 
> server what the user's prefered timezone is.

You could do it with javascript:

var now = new Date();
var tz = now.getTimezoneOffset();

That, with a hidden form field in the loginbox, would do it...

Anthony
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