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I was baffled when I first entered my schedule for a conference into Google Maps, only to find when I flew across the country that all the times were wrong. I u
by comicjk 3y ago
I was baffled when I first entered my schedule for a conference into Google Maps, only to find when I flew across the country that all the times were wrong. I understand that it's a reasonable choice to use the local time zone at event creation, but it sure wasn't what I expected (I vaguely thought it would be like your alarm clock example, where it would move with the local time).
- arnsholt 3y agoI once made a flight by the slimmest of margins possible (the gate crew stopped closing the check in because they saw me sprinting through the terminal hall), because of this and only one hour difference between where I started from and where I went.
- ehvatum 3y agoI mean obviously wherever a date time entry can be found, there should be a TZ drop-down and a DST checkbox. lusers who don’t know what those things are will learn soon enough. I really mean it. The ambiguity is a problem.
- paulddraper 3y agoI've done the same. Google did 100% the correct thing, but it goes to show that this is just an inherently tricky thing not limited to whether you are writing code.