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Brendan Patterson added a comment - 06/Jun/05 12:15 PM
This would be a very helpful feature for us at GSK as well. Any idea of what future release this might be tied to?
Brendan,
This feature is not part of the current roadmap. For the next release we are focusing on the WYSIWYG editor, RSS and other essential features. Since this feature doesn't have many votes so far, it was not very high on our list. Cheers, Oops, this ended up in the wrong component. Moving it back to UI.
+1 from Adaptavist - we have clients in Canada, USA, Australia, Belgium, Demnark and the UK. Lots of timezones yet they are all fixed on GMT.
This issue has been around for a while now. I am increasing its priority now to make it more prominent.
Ability to set default timezone offset for all users would also be useful. For example, if a Confluence installation is hoted in the UK, but is predominantly accessed from the USA, we would like to set just that Confluence installation to be, for example, EST. Users would be able to override their time zone if desired via their profile, but the ability to set the default timezone would be very useful to accommodate the majority of users.
It would also be highly desirable to be able to see the timezone appearing next to time (although this should ideally be an optional thing - ie. on or off) - for example, comments would show 02:35 GMT, etc. That way, anonymous visitors would be able to better understand when the post was actually made, rather than mistakenly assuming that the time shown relates to their own timezone. Our project team is spread in 4 different time zones and this is very critical for us.
Our world domination is progressing and we now have clients in 25 countries - time zones are becoming a bigger and bigger issue for us and our clients.
In Confluence 2.3, users will have a selection box in their preferences to select a time zone.
The server time zone can be configured through the 'user.timezone' system property (at least for the Sun JDK). The user's time zone preference is used for all edit and creation timestamps, in email notifications and RSS, and pretty much everywhere the user sees a date in Confluence. The server time zone is used for anonymous users, if the user has no preference set, and also for a few dates that must be consistent for all users – news item publish dates, dates in XML exports, the build date, and a couple of other minor cases. This is marked as "Fixed" as of Confluence 2.3, but I can't see where in my user preferences I can choose a time zone, nor do I remember ever seeing it in there. I still contend that a system-level preference for a default time zone is what's needed here.
Setting the JDK user.timezone system property seems very kludgy and will probably have knock-on effects on other applications running, no? Michelle, the time zone setting is on the General menu option under preferences. I'll attach a screenshot.
As you say, changing the 'user.timezone' system property will affect other time-zone-aware applications running in the same JVM. Confluence could probably do with a global preference to control this – it would be good to raise a separate request for this improvement. |
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Display times in user's timezone
