#2684 NORM Trial-3: No way to set the timezone or the time or the time format, but the journal shows timestamps on everything

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#2684: No way to set the timezone or the time or the time format, but the journal
shows timestamps on everything
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  Reporter:  gnu     |       Owner:  hal      
      Type:  defect  |      Status:  new      
  Priority:  normal  |   Milestone:  Trial-3  
 Component:  sugar   |     Version:  Build 542
Resolution:          |    Keywords:           
  Verified:  0       |  
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Changes (by Eben):

  * owner:  Eben => hal

Comment:

 I think that taking the time zone from the school server is a good idea.
 This can be part of the registration process, which will also make it easy
 for kids who move and switch time zones. Apart from that, we may want to
 add a manual way to adjust time zones, but as mentioned, this should be an
 edge case and not a requirement.  We don't yet have a global settings or
 preferences center, but we'll eventually need something of this nature.

 Regarding the AM vs. PM vs. "who cares ''exactly'' what time it was
 anyway...it was last week" argument, the relative date API should be
 adopting the 3rd option.  We want to use relative times with decreasing
 granularity as time passes, so that something from 9 months ago is dated
 as "9 months ago."  There are tickets for this, and of course, as with
 everything, localization will also apply here too.  (For those that need
 the details, the detail view for each entry will reveal the exact time,
 based on the timestamp (and perhaps the timezone) and that might have a
 global setting for display as well...maybe we'll just adopt 24 hour time
 as a default anyway...I like that approach.)

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