Discourse local dates need better presentation in emails

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The Discourse local time displays wonderful dates in the web UI. However in emails it can be very very confusing.

For example: May 18, 2018 11:03 PM will display as May 19, 2018 9:03 AM in an emails which leaves recipients very confused.

I propose a multi step approach to improving this.

  • Immediate change… just display time zone with the time in emails so we would have May 19, 2018 9:03 AM Australia/Sydney

  • Longer term change, start storing local time zone in the user profile table (detect via JS and hand to server with a header). Then in emails we can send the times in the “last know local timezone”

  • Longer Longer term, allow users to control preferred timezone in user profile (automatic vs manually set to something)

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Discourse Version 2.2
Date line should be human-readable in mails
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Hmm we need to get that immediate fix in #1 for the 2.0 release at least cc @j.jaffeux

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Working on it, but I still don’t understand why you say that it will display as May 19, 2018 9:03 AM in an email. This is not what will happen, it will display:

May 19, 2018 09:03 AM (Australia: Sidney)

The issue is that it will display all timezones set when configuring the date, and you might end up with something very verbose. So yes we will need step2, to have something cool here, so you say send this email to this user living in Australia/Sidney timezone

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This is now done. We need to work on step 2 in the future, it will really make it very cool.

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I am not clear why “all” time zones need to be shown? Why not simply default to UTC in emails for now as a short term 2.0 fix?

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Im showing only one now, honestly we can just put UTC if you want, if we are moving soon to something else I don’t have strong opinions on this.

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Ok one is fine that works for me!

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Will be fixed by:

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Это идея о том, как можно улучшить эту функцию

  1. Часовой пояс в письмах должен основываться на исходном часовом поясе, указанном в посте
    Если я установлю значение часового пояса как
    [date=2019-12-15 time=23:59:00 timezone="EST"]
    то в письме оно должно быть отправлено именно в таком виде.

  2. Улучшить форматирование часового пояса в настройках этого форума:
    image
    В настоящее время возможности несколько ограничены:
    image
    (на случай, если мы захотим отображать полное название часового пояса или использовать какое-либо другое оригинальное форматирование)

    В настоящее время возможности несколько ограничены:
    image

  3. В качестве альтернативы — разрешить администратору выбирать часовой пояс для отправки писем в настройках, например, с помощью переключателя, такого как:
    discourse local dates email format timezone

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