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Tips for dealing with different timezones?

Every time I plan on an event in a different timezone I'm confused how to put it in my calendar.

@douginamug I *really* miss Fastmail for this. As far as I can see, Thunderbird doesn't provide *any* sort of support for time zones except correctly showing events in whichever one you have set. I decided to switch to a provider with no (good) webmail and went to Thunderbird full time, and as much as it's gotten better, the calendar is the thing that really hasn't worked for me and that's made me consider going back. If you find a good solution, I'd love to know.

@sam so I found out that in the event panel, you can toggle "options -> show timezones" However the picker is quite nasty :/

@douginamug Somehow I have never seen that there and I can't imagine why there would be a whole option just to show or hide two extra tiny UI elements. Also why I can't just click on this map… I tried to click the map like 5 times and assumed it was just being buggy before I realized that it's not actually supposed to work that way. Thanks for pointing this out though!

@sam yeah... I'm trying to figure out how to read/report bugs and it's exciting 🙃 Mozilla use mercurial for code, bugzilla for bugs and mail/matrix for chat... I'm in the :mozilla.org room now asking for help because too overwhelmed.

@sam feels quite important to improve this bit!

-> remove optional showing, or at least have it on by default

-> have start and end time in the same time zone (I mean, do people ever want those in different time zones? 😖 )

-> have UTC timezones right at the top of the drop down

.... etc

Doug Webb

@sam @pintoch

found this issue about improving the thunderbird calendar timezones picker. 13 years old, but active again since last year

bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.

big changes coming apparently: "dialogs and cramped pieces of UI will be nuked after 115" 👀

bugzilla.mozilla.org647632 - Improve Time Zone selection by using user-friendly zone namesNEW (nobody) in Calendar - General. Last updated 2024-03-18.

@sam @pintoch ...and thunderbird beta is already at version 124. Very tempted to install...

@sam @pintoch hmm, installed beta as a snap... no obvious differences :(