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[schema] User Timezone #42

Open hoodsy opened 5 years ago

hoodsy commented 5 years ago

We are going to want to use the User's timezone in a lot of places. In the MVP and conversations with educational creators around the world, timezones are always an issue.

For example, a student lands on the Explore page and sees an upcoming lesson at 8:00pm EDT. They have no idea when that class is in their timezone, and would have to google the conversion.

Instead, we either:

  1. record each user's timezone on signup
  2. ask for the user's location and as a result, timezone, when they refresh their token / login

With timezones, we can display times that are useful to all of our users.

@maticzav