[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #51130: Events displayed in venue timezone instead of user's

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#51130: Events displayed in venue timezone instead of user's
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 Reporter:  iandunn                   |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement               |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                    |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Date/Time                 |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                    |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch has-unit-tests  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by sippis):

 This sounds like a great improvement! For example user in Stockholm does
 not have any events coming up in Sweden, but we are having a WordCamp
 Finland Online later this year. Sweden is UTC+2 and we are living UTC+3 in
 Finland, so user currently would see wrong time if it would be meetup
 instead of WordCamp. And our Helsinki group might have online meetup which
 would interest them. Stockholm and Helsinki are so close to each other,
 that events in one of those cities will most likely be visible in both
 cities at the moment at least.

 Replying to [comment:10 iandunn]:
 > I'd thought about adding it next to the event time, but it felt too
 cluttered. Putting it next to the city time would mitigate that. I
 uploaded some screenshots above that show examples of those.

 I think it's enough to show the timezone next to the city. Putting it next
 to event time makes the view too cluttered indeed. Though in that case,
 the user might think the event times are still displayed in the
 venue/local time rather than in their own timezone and add more confusion.

 Some visual indication that tells how times are shown, as @hlashbrooke
 suggested, would be really good addition.

 > It also shows the difference between using the UTC offset, and the
 timezone abbreviation. I think I'm leaning towards the timezone
 abbreviation, since that's shorter, and would be more familiar for most
 people (I'm assuming).

 Personally I'm leaning towards showing UTC offset rather than timezone
 abbreviation. It really depends on the location of user to which they are
 used to. In my mind timezone abbreviations are something that is used in
 US and UK, but not in central Europe for example and I've grown to use UTC
 offset since the elementary school :D

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