#[tfg4k]Anyone around want to give me a hand getting set up, I think I could help write up a more concise and friendly how-to for newer people.. if anyone has the time. Just a thought.
#[tfg4k]or to put it another way, who should i submit a better getting-started article to once i get set up
#aaronpkyou're welcome to just edit the page directly!
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#[shaners]Anyone know of a canonical list of timezone offsets / timezone names (or cities in that timezone)? Preferably as a hash or array of arrays that I can easily copy paste.
#gRegorLoveI wonder about sending people away from /Getting_Started to indiewebify.me as the first step. indiewebify.me is great for the validators but is it confusing to send people there for step-by-step guidance when /Getting_Started is also supposed to be step-by-step?
#[shaners]And then put them in the database in a timezones table
#aaronpkoh nice "Rails’ ActiveSupport::TimeZone is a wrapper around TZInfo that limits the set of zones provided by TZInfo to a meaningful subset of 146 zones."
#aaronpkcould probably just query `ActiveSupport::TimeZone` directly
#[shaners]aaronpk: I still want them in the db. But `ActiveSupport::TimeZone` will make my migration cleaner. :+1::skin-tone-2:
#aaronpkcalagator.org takes this approach and does well with it
#KevinMarksindeed, recurring events are most of what makes calendaring painful
#[shaners]kevinmarks: it’s for people’s timezone offset. I’m storing the number (-0800), but also providing place names in the choosing ui for additional convenience.
#aaronpk[shaners]: DST means you have to store two offsets as well as the dates that they change. timezone name encodes all of that info in a single value.
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#[tfg4k]Finally got set up so I can login to contribute. Sorry for the massive delay. Very excited though.
#aaronpkthe super ridiculous/annoying part is the US changed the dates that DST starts and ends a couple years ago so...
#aaronpkjust store timezone name and then most of the date libraries deal with it correctly
#[tfg4k]shaners: Thing is, this is superdope as an idea, it should be way easier to set up. Im going to draft a couple of howto's and put them on my site i set up for this specifically as I continue to RTFM
#bearthat's why I always store UTC offsets and offer UI text from the OS specified timezone datafile
#aaronpkin my individual posts i store the UTC offset since i don't care about whether it was DST when I want to display the date for a post
#bearjavascript - use moments.js; python - use pytz; ruby (forget); perl use DateTime cpan
#aaronpksometimes i think i should write up a guide on best practices for handling timezones
#[shaners]Sounds amazing, tfg4k. We always appreciate more new comer input bc we’re always try to make it easier.
#aaronpkthis is one thing i feel like i have pretty well figured out on my site and not a lot of other people handle it well
#beardo you display comments with the TZ info for the sender?
#aaronpki'm actually on the fence about whether that makes sense or to show it in my timezone, but either way i definitely store the timezone offset of the commenter
#bearthen i'll have to send you a webmention on hour before DST change over and then see how it displays an hour after
#j4y_funabashiwent on a bit of a detour, tweaked the design and rewrote my datastore to be html+microformats - now that all seems to be working I am back on the long road to implementing swat0
#LoqiSWAT0 is an abbreviation for The Social Web Acid Test level 0 and is a user-feature interoperability test for social web functionality defined in 2010 https://indiewebcamp.com/SWAT0
#Loqirhiaro meant to say: I wouldn't know how if i wanted to
#cweisketo send out static HTML at first, so that the user sees something, and then do the heavy calculations that take time and send their results afterwards
#cweiske1st chunk static html, 2nd chunk the dynamic things
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#[chrisaldrich]How could we get him more into mf2 though? That could be a nice lynchpin that could create a quick seachange....
#[chrisaldrich]How I wish that the theme search tool in wordpress included a checkbox for microformats2 the way it does for microformats... it could spur some broader themer adoption of its use...
#aaronpkis that something that could be proposed to them?
#[chrisaldrich]From what I understand from GWG it introduces some backwards compatibility issues into core that require some reasonable work; but where there's a will there's a way.
#[chrisaldrich]i had a conversation with some Jetpack folks last week to track down the person/group that handles the checkbox... Would certainly be easier to go from the top down, but I just don't have the contacts directly.
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#[chrisaldrich]From my perspective things like mf2 and webmention are potential game changers for products like WordPress that catapult them above/beyond other silos, I'm shocked that products like disqus didn't build them 8 years ago.
#[chrisaldrich]oops, late for a meeting, back in a bit. GWG keep up the good fight!
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