Feature request/review of the scheduler timezone offest

[Marcus Eddy]

Hi There

It would be nice to have the option to just be able to adjust a "Today Date" offset separately to the timezone offset.

Currently the timezone offset changes the values in the Database in relation to what is put in the scheduler i.e.  02/09/2008 1:00pm in the scheduler is actually stored in the db as 02/09/2008 3:00am with a 10 hr UTC offset which is obviously incorrect data.

This is not very useful when using the events outside of the scheduler ie a listview of a summary of events or looking at the data in the database  as you have to convert each value back to the non offset time.  In our scenario if we could just set an offset for todays date then this counteract any need for the offset to be applied to the each appointment as it appears that the only difference for the clients using the scheduler from Aus to US is the "Todays Date" and perhaps thhe navigation with the current week switch over

Our set up is
Web Server US
DB Server US
Client AUS


Cheers Marcus

[T. Tsonev]

Hi Marcus,

If I understand you correctly, you only need to display appointments in Australian time on your site. As your server is in the US, the displayed "Today" date is incorrect. I think the workaround is quite simple. You should set your "SelectedDate" according to the Australian time:

DateTime nowAus = DateTime.Now.AddHours(CurrentAustralianOffset);
RadScheduler1.SelectedDate = nowAus;

You should decide on a way to obtain the time zone offset. As .NET Framework prior to version 3.5 provides time zone offset information only for the current time zone, you should consider either using the TimeZoneInfo class (.NET 3.5) or external library, such as TZ4Net to obtain correct values according to DST rules.

The TimeZoneOffset property of RadScheduler is designed for scenarios where you want different customers to see the appointments with times adjusted for their time zone. Look at this example for a demonstration:

http://demos.telerik.com/ASPNET/Prometheus/Scheduler/Examples/TimeZones/DefaultCS.aspx

I hope this helps.

All the best,
Tsvetomir Tsonev
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[Marcus Eddy]

Hi There,

Sorry for the tardy reply i was finishing off a project. I believe you have understood what i was after however setting the selected date does not seem to move the background colour behind the "day name" header  (in the week view) to the correct day.  I did confirm that the selected date was assigned the right datetime but this did not seem to be reflected in the scheduler as desired.  Could you please confirm that using the selected date will change today css class to the right day,  a live example can be seen at http://www.activelaunceston.com.au/events.aspx

Cheers Marcus

[T. Tsonev]

Hi Marcus,

I have replied to you in the support ticket.

Regards,
Tsvetomir Tsonev
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[Amir Maharjan]

Hi Tsvetomir,

I'm having the same problem and I also want to highlight the today date correctly.I also followed your suggestion but that didn't help.Would you mind sharing the workaround?

I'm using RadScheduler of version 2009.2.701.20.

Thanks,

Amir

[Peter]

Hello Amir,

I wonder if this kb article can help you
http://www.telerik.com/support/kb/aspnet-ajax/scheduler/setting-special-days-or-time-slots-in-radscheduler.aspx

You should look at the variations further down the article > Highlight the current day.

Let us know how it goes.


Best wishes,
Peter
the Telerik team

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