GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 704779
No timezone information in Free/Busy information for attendees
Last modified: 2013-07-29 05:37:38 UTC
This is using Evolution-EWS. When scheduling an appointment including attendees, the attendees' timezone information is not included in the Free/Busy UI. Request is to add the timezone information for the attendees.
I think I know why it matters, but I do not see where to get such information. You know, to sniff in user preferences on the server is surely prohibited by the server privacy policy.
PJ, does outlook show you this information? I thought this kind of time-of-day information was made available somehow, just as the free/busy information is. After all, it's pointless knowing someone is "free" because they don't have a meeting... but not knowing that the *reason* they don't have a meeting right then is because it's 2 o'clock in their morning.
I just ran through my workflow in Outlook, and this information doesn't exist (I had a different configuration, see below). What I did notice is I had a second timezone added in my Calendar view which I used for this purpose. I'll open a new BZ for a slight feature tweak, since when I add a new timezone to display in Evolution, the Calendar view doesn't distinguish which timezone is which in the columns. One can infer which is which, but it'd be best if it's explicit (such as Outlook). I'll add a new enhancement request for the timezone differentiation.
(In reply to comment #3) > I'll add a new enhancement request for the timezone differentiation. There is not much space for it, the most you get the chosen timezone in the context menu on the time line in the day/work-week view. But I confess I do not know how outlook does it.