Ladies and Gentlemen,
Global projects are difficult to manage as we all know for a variety of reasons. One very obvious and simple, yet not trivial reason is the difference of time zones. Imagine a project in four different regions. Region 1 is Europe, Region 2 is North America, Region 3 is South America and Region 4 is Asia. Have fun and enjoy it - when it comes to coordinate meetings, telcos, or if you intend to track deadlines. It would be great if a project manager could get additional support in your software. Things like clocks for the different regions to see quickly what time it is in a certain region (similar to my ipod touch ;-) ) as well as the ability to see at what time a document was submitted (local time, regional time, time of the region where the project manager is located and so on).
The conference scheduling functionality (in netviewer) should also contain this functionality. This may already be the case (haven´t checked it so far) today for netviewer, but also should be a general feature in all projectplace functionality.
Thanks in advance for friendly consideration.
Best regards,
Joachim Schirra
Hi Joakim!
Thanks for all your ideas! I fully understand that working with a geographically distributed team makes time zones an important issue. I just wanted to take the opportunity to explain how it works at the moment in Projectplace.
When you log in via our web site http://www.projectplace.com we take the time zone from your operating system and uses that throughout the system. So if one of your colleagues has edited a document at noon GMT and you are on GMT +2 it will say in your system that it was changed at 14.00. The meeting requests work the same way...each person should get the requests in their own local time.
The online meeting provided via netviewer in Projectplace does not include scheduling.
Hello All.
I would support an idea to have an option say not taking time (zone) from computer set-up - I will set-up manually. Default would be take the time zone from computer. So we would keep actual function.
But if we decide to have specific time zone then we would allow e.g. GMT+1.
Please consider following approaches further:
Thanks
Radek
Karolina, by OS you mean the very computer or the data of connection?
If we use a proxy of other country to connect, for instance, it may be wrong data...
Just a thought.
Hi,
There is development work being done on this at the moment. With the new calendar which is scheduled for release on the 8th of March we will get better support for time zones when working with meetings. The idea that you should be able to override you computer time setting with a user setting in Projectplace has been discussed but that is not planned right now.
@Kleber It should be the local time on your computer, not the time of the proxy.
Best regards,
Karolina
The new calendar was released in the March 2011 release
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The new calendar was released in the March 2011 release