Localize timezones #1

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iou1name · 2018-06-21T09:51:33-04:00

iou1name commented

2018-06-21 09:51:33 -04:00

Make the application use the user's timezone for strftime conversions, not the server's timezone. The chat timestamps might already be doing this? Get some yuropoor to confirm this.
Possible methods:

Use javascript to get the client's local timezone offset and send a server request to set the offset in the session cookie, similar to how hide_header is done now. This would only be done if the offset is not already set.
Use a geoip database to find the IP's timezone, possible using the geoip2 library on pypi. This would give the additional benefit being able to gather unsolicited telemetry data and possibly make one of those fancy "X many users from Y countries" maps. Negative is that IP addresses are less reliable than just asking the client for it's timezone.

Make the application use the user's timezone for strftime conversions, not the server's timezone. The chat timestamps might already be doing this? Get some yuropoor to confirm this. Possible methods: - Use javascript to get the client's local timezone offset and send a server request to set the offset in the session cookie, similar to how `hide_header` is done now. This would only be done if the offset is not already set. - Use a geoip database to find the IP's timezone, possible using the `geoip2` library on pypi. This would give the additional benefit being able to gather unsolicited telemetry data and possibly make one of those fancy "X many users from Y countries" maps. Negative is that IP addresses are less reliable than just asking the client for it's timezone.

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label 2018-06-21 09:52:32 -04:00

iou1name commented

2020-01-29 15:17:23 -05:00

Closing this because this repository is deprecated in favor of https://git.steelbea.me/iou1name/Titivillus (which is also dead).

iou1name closed this issue

2020-01-29 15:17:23 -05:00

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