316918 - Set default timezone per calendar

Status: NEW

(Calendar :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Majken Connor [:Kensie]]

This would be related to bug 165963

Instead of setting a timezone per event, I'd like to be able to set a timezone to a calendar, and all events created in that calendar would be created in that timezone.

My husband goes on business trips to Mountain View, and I stay home, in EST.  What we've done with this trip is created a separate calendar for his PST events - this lets me set the whole calendar to one color, so I know they're his PST events, but also allows him to set whatever category color system he wants to use on it.  Currently, I have to minus 3 hours from his events and he needs to add 3 hours to my events so we know what time we're doing things at.  It would be great if his PST calendar could be set to -8 and then when I view it in EST sunbird would shift them to reflect what time they're happening in -5

ie When he's in PST and viewing an event set for 5pm PST it shows up in his calendar as 5pm, but shows up in mine at home as 8pm.

Personally I'd like to see this as a dropdown that says GMT and all the time options when creating/editing a calendar.

Comment 1

[Matthew (lilmatt) Willis]

Reassigning all automatically assigned bugs from Mostafa to nobody@m.o

Bugspam filter: TorontoMostafaMove

Comment 2

[Bas van den Bosch]

This is WFM, isn't it?

Comment 3

[Martin Schröder [:mschroeder]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> This is WFM, isn't it?

I don't think so. You can set a timezone for single events & tasks, and for the whole application. But there is no way to set a default timezone per calendar.

Comment 4

[Bas van den Bosch]

Judging the description of the usercase this already works, however the final question is different. I can see the advantage and I think it wouldn't be really hard to implement for new events/tasks. However, how would we handle copied and moved events? Do we change the timezone for an event which is copied from a calendar in timezone 1 to a calendar in timezone 2?

Comment 5

[Majken Connor [:Kensie]]

So I would think even times would be stored in UTC then displayed in the timezone of the calendar. So if an event is at 5pm GMT -5 and it's moved to a calendar that's GMT -8 then the event should display as 2pm in the -8 calendar.

Exception would be if the event wasn't the default timezone for calendar 1. If the user has specified a timezone per event then that should be preserved.