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prachi.tamrakar

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Want to set calendar for civievent as per user timezone
October 01, 2009, 06:50:19 am
Want to set calendar for civievent as per user timezone

Raphy

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Re: Want to set calendar for civievent as per user timezone
November 29, 2009, 11:53:05 pm
Trying to do the same thing...

Some Users in Timezone one or two hours different

When i use
ini_set('date.timezone','Australia/Brisbane');
in civicrm.settings.php it forces all users time to Brisbane.

When i remove it, it jumps back to an other timezone (Brisbane +1) but i don't know where this is coming from. Server timezone and Drupal timezone is Brisbane.

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Re: Want to set calendar for civievent as per user timezone
February 09, 2010, 01:07:00 pm
I'm also having problems here. I've tried setting the timezone in the CiviCRM settings file in Drupal but the calendar still shows a time zone way off from where I'm at. Maybe this is a separate problem but maybe not?

I'm using CiviCRM 3.1.1 and Drupal 6

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Re: Want to set calendar for civievent as per user timezone
February 11, 2010, 06:41:53 am
We have a new, jQuery-based calendar in CiviCRM 3.1 – is there a chance that the date and time are based on the user’s browser setting (rather than whatever server/PHP/Drupal uses)?

It seems like this would make the best solution (i.e., default to the user’s ‘current’ time as per his system’s/browser’s timezone).
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Re: Want to set calendar for civievent as per user timezone
February 11, 2010, 07:08:14 am

i dont think this is a great solution. we store time in civicrm without an TZ info, whch basically means we assume the same TZ for all users. The civimail cronjob will interpret things based on the server timezone

ultimately we do need to store TZ info with date times or store all dates at GMT and then translate

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Re: Want to set calendar for civievent as per user timezone
February 15, 2010, 05:14:00 am
Right, I forgot that the user-input data must be relevant for other users.

Doing timezones right is very hard (it only looks relatively easy), so I agree that CiviCRM should stick to a single timezone (for now?), and either be aware of it (and do on-the-fly conversions to- and from GMT) or just store all of its datetimes with the proper timezone info (which seems the better of these two).
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