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An Android app for multi-modal trip planning and navigation using any OpenTripPlanner server.
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Change presentation of timezone times #429

Open barbeau opened 9 years ago

barbeau commented 9 years ago

Currently, the presentation of time zones in the marker balloons, trip selection spinner, and written itinerary look like this:

otpandroid_gmttimes

If we stick with GMT presentation, we should display timezones like "GMT-2".

However, we may want to change to abbreviations of the timezone names, as shown here: http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/

In the U.S., at least, I think the typical traveler would understand the timezone abbreviations (e.g., EST or EDT) instead of GMT+/- X. Any thoughts on other countries?

After more thought, though, and after looking at Google Maps, I think that we should probably drop the timezone abbreviation altogether from the marker balloon and trip selection spinner, since the user will likely assume that the trip takes place in local time. We can keep the timezone in the intinerary, since we have more room there, and that gives clarification if the user has any doubts.

@vreixo I'm going to do the release now without this change, and we can work on this for the next release.

vreixo commented 9 years ago

@barbeau agreed that there is room for improvement on this part and that this is not a deal breaker at the moment :-).

Btw. I'm not sure if in Europe people is very used to timezone names, for example it's very strange to see CEST written here. On 11 Set, 2014 19:53, "Sean Barbeau" notifications@github.com wrote:

Currently, the presentation of time zones in the marker balloons, trip selection spinner, and written itinerary look like this:

[image: otpandroid_gmttimes] https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/928045/4238722/50408be8-39db-11e4-908e-ce315bf6905a.png

If we stick with GMT presentation, we should display timezones like "GMT-2".

However, we may want to change to abbreviations of the timezone names, as shown here: http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/

In the U.S., at least, I think the typical traveler would understand the timezone abbreviations (e.g., EST or EDT) instead of GMT+/- X. Any thoughts on other countries?

After more thought, though, and after looking at Google Maps https://www.google.com/maps/dir/29.7384925,-95.3303826/29.6727151,-95.3524415/@29.7024846,-95.3784197,13z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m4!4m3!1m0!1m0!3e3, I think that we should probably drop the timezone abbreviation altogether from the marker balloon and trip selection spinner, since the user will likely assume that the trip takes place in local time. We can keep the timezone in the intinerary, since we have more room there, and that gives clarification if the user has any doubts.

@vreixo https://github.com/vreixo I'm going to do the release now without this change, and we can work on this for the next release.

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