Comments on: Adium Time Zone Plugin 1.0 is Out! http://fadeover.org/blog/archives/29 The bleeding edge, for hemophiliacs. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:05:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Georg http://fadeover.org/blog/archives/29#comment-1095 Georg Sun, 08 Jul 2007 17:46:38 +0000 http://fadeover.org/blog/archives/29#comment-1095 Thank you for this really useful plugin! I have three suggestions, though: 1) Could you make it look more like the time zone feature in Calendar or in the SysPrefs? Mac OS X comes with its own time zone selection window which I like much better. 2) Adium should use the city/country specified in the contact’s Addressbook entry by default. This would safe me a lot of time. 3) Is there some local_time variable which could be included in message styles? Thank you for this really useful plugin!
I have three suggestions, though:
1) Could you make it look more like the time zone feature in Calendar or in the SysPrefs? Mac OS X comes with its own time zone selection window which I like much better.
2) Adium should use the city/country specified in the contact’s Addressbook entry by default. This would safe me a lot of time.
3) Is there some local_time variable which could be included in message styles?

]]> By: patrick http://fadeover.org/blog/archives/29#comment-1033 patrick Sat, 23 Jun 2007 20:37:07 +0000 http://fadeover.org/blog/archives/29#comment-1033 Hey Leo, There's currently no plans to do so since that would be pretty confusing: Imagine trying to read your logs and it saying that you were sending messages at 4PM and they were replying at 6:01AM. You'd need to embed their location into the logs all the time which would be cumbersome and rather unnecessary. Or if you went away and got a message from someone saying it was recieved at 5PM when it was actually just their time. You'd have to do the math in your head to try and figure out when it was sent. Sorry! Hey Leo,

There’s currently no plans to do so since that would be pretty confusing: Imagine trying to read your logs and it saying that you were sending messages at 4PM and they were replying at 6:01AM. You’d need to embed their location into the logs all the time which would be cumbersome and rather unnecessary. Or if you went away and got a message from someone saying it was recieved at 5PM when it was actually just their time. You’d have to do the math in your head to try and figure out when it was sent.

Sorry!

]]> By: Leo http://fadeover.org/blog/archives/29#comment-1032 Leo Sat, 23 Jun 2007 20:30:03 +0000 http://fadeover.org/blog/archives/29#comment-1032 Odd question but is there a chance you're going to expand it so it replaces the time information in the time-stamps? Like say 21:16/12:16? Say, my time first, their time second? Odd question but is there a chance you’re going to expand it so it replaces the time information in the time-stamps? Like say 21:16/12:16? Say, my time first, their time second?

]]> By: Carla http://fadeover.org/blog/archives/29#comment-745 Carla Thu, 10 May 2007 15:55:06 +0000 http://fadeover.org/blog/archives/29#comment-745 It's the only plugin that "survived" the upgrade this morning, so I'd say you're good to go. :) It's working fine. Thank you! I work for an international company, and we use Jabber, so your plugin has been a lifesaver. If you need help testing it/trying to break it ;), please let me know, and I'd be happy to help. It’s the only plugin that “survived” the upgrade this morning, so I’d say you’re good to go. :) It’s working fine. Thank you! I work for an international company, and we use Jabber, so your plugin has been a lifesaver. If you need help testing it/trying to break it ;), please let me know, and I’d be happy to help.

]]> By: patrick http://fadeover.org/blog/archives/29#comment-426 patrick Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:54:00 +0000 http://fadeover.org/blog/archives/29#comment-426 Hey Dallas, The reason I chose to go with Cities as oppose to GMT offsets ("Time zones") is twofold: 1. Most people in my experience don't know their GMT offset and 2. GMT offsets don't account for daylight savings time, since different parts of the same time zone can choose to observe or not observe DST. Using major cities solves both these problems. Thanks! Patrick Hey Dallas,

The reason I chose to go with Cities as oppose to GMT offsets (”Time zones”) is twofold: 1. Most people in my experience don’t know their GMT offset and 2. GMT offsets don’t account for daylight savings time, since different parts of the same time zone can choose to observe or not observe DST. Using major cities solves both these problems.

Thanks!
Patrick

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