>From a usability perspective accurate local time is really important.
Folks need to know what time it is and often rely on their computer
for that. Removing the clock masks that issue but doesn't solve it.
Is there a way to let users pick a timezone in the greeter (and
persist it) and present that to them while using UTC for all the
behind-the-scenes elements? Clearly this makes it a bigger project,
but is a useful gap to fill.
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 11:26 AM, <sajolida@???> wrote:
> We constantly receive questions and complains about the clock be wrong
> on the desktop. That's because it is set to UTC for everybody to avoid
> splitting the anonymity set.
>
> We had a task about documentation for a while [1]. It's even a broken
> window assigned to me, *shame* :)
>
> [1] https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/5842
>
> Then today I realized that a complementary way of looking at the problem
> would be to remove that clock from the desktop.
>
> Furthermore, some people tried to edit their locations from that applet,
> possibly leaking more info.
>
> People will still have a wrong time in timestamps otherwise: from
> Pidgin, when running `date`, etc. but at least not directly visible on
> the desktop. The rational here is to not display anything instead of
> displaying something wrong.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Shall we set a deadline for this discussion in two weeks? October 3.
>
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