Nice Tweak: Calendars Recognize Local Customs
As a North American I’ve been slightly vexed by one of our settings that reflects Dopplr’s European heritage. This is the popup calendar when creating or editing a trip that showed a Monday to Sunday week. I’m used to seeing the calendar as Sunday through Saturday.
MattB and team have come up with a nifty interim fix. They’ve installed a calendar that uses your home location to decide. North Americans get Sunday to Saturday weeks, and the rest of the world gets Monday to Sunday. So my edit-trip calendar looks like this:
Again, this is just an interim step. You’ll soon be able to make this decision for yourself in the “Your account” settings.
Please also a shred of TZ awareness; I’d love to see the ability to at least say trips start morning/night in the local TZ. I’ve had several trips where I’m told I’m in my destination before I’ve even packed! All in all a great service - whatever you do PLEASE keep it lightweight and avoid the endless geegaws and widgets that have bogged down so many other social-networking sites.
JZP,
This should make you a little happier: we just upgraded our timezone-handling code this week. As of last Wednesday, your location is calculation just after midnight in your current location rather than midnight GMT (as was previously the case). We’re also planning to add a morning/night departure field too.
Thank you, Dopplr team! This will drastically reduce my trip data entry error rate, which has until now been distressingly high.
Personally I think that your “interim fix”, which solves the problem pretty elegantly and *doesn’t* require another option for me to think about in the settings, seems like it should be the permanent fix. :)
I wish loads of US-originated sites would return the favour and enable a Monday-Sunday view… (Sunday to Saturday makes no sense to me - it’s not called a weekend for nothing).
Interesting….. I have always gone for Sunday to Saturday as the week and I am most definately not American. I hadn’t realised it was an americanism…. Most of those I try to avoid as a matter of principle but I’d be happy to use Sunday to Saturday. That said, I’m intelligent enough to beable to work out my travel dates, and anyone elses irrespective of whether the week starts on a Sunday or a Monday…. ho hum..