[katello-devel] time in date during sync plan creation

[Jason Rist]

On Wed 12 Sep 2012 05:30:29 AM MDT, Dmitri Dolguikh wrote:
> Hey everybody,
>
> Came across of this bit of code in SyncPlansController#convert_date_time:
>
>     sync_event = date + ' ' + time + ' '  + DateTime.now.zone
>
> We cannot assume that the server and the client reside in the same
> timezone - the end result of this is the client has no idea when (or
> what day for that matter) the sync is going to be executed. We
> probably have a similar issue when showing the times too (haven't
> checked).
>
> Timezone information has to come from the client. When showing time
> back to the client, we either: have to convert it to their time zone,
> or show it relative to UTC.
>
> Should I add a story to the backlog for this?
>
> -d
>
>
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Did you mean to send this twice? :) I think I'd consider this a bug.  
Good find!

-J

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