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I just uploaded over 500 email addresses and wanted to start using the calendar.? ?I am unclear what timezone is associated with the new members...I had set default to eastern.? ?I also didn't see a way I could check random members.? They are all eastern time zone.

Any suggestions?

Too late for folks that are already in the group, but there's setting you can use to set the default for them.? On the Settings page, select Default Sub Settings at the top.? On the page that opens, you can set defaults for various member settings, including Time Zone.? Update Group at the bottom of the page.? Any new members will have those to start with, but can change them if they want.

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Is there some way I can check to see what time zone individual members are in?? ?Thanks.

On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 11:28 AM, Earl Novendstern wrote:

Is there some way I can check to see what time zone individual members are in??

I don't think so.

Calendar management can be a pain, not because of anything groups.io does, but just the nature of group dynamics, time zones, and even the international date line.

First, it's important to understand that time zone is an account setting, not a subscription setting. Any single group can have subscribers all over the globe. So if you were to set up a calendar entry for a meeting at noon UTC, it would show up on my calendar as occurring at 4:00 PM EDT.

Assuming all of your subscribers are local, your Default Sub Setting for time zone will be applied whenever a new subscription is set up for someone who didn't already have a groups.io account. If that person already has an account, those defaults will not be applied; and each affected subscriber will have to update his time zone manually (HINT: it's on the?/account?page=prefs?page).?

I have not actually tested every single bit of this but that's the way I understand it.

Regards,
Bruce

On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 03:28 PM, Earl Novendstern wrote:

Is there some way I can check to see what time zone individual members are in?

Bruce's answer is correct unless (a) your members have put some clue about their locations in their profiles, and (b) you are prepared to do a lot of work to look at each and every profile in the hope that the information is there and then work out which time zone that location is in.?

I'll be the first to admit that that isn't really a solution...? but you did say "some" way.

Chris

On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 03:50 PM, I wrote:

I'll be the first to admit that that isn't really a solution...? but you did say "some" way.

Actually there is a way, depending on exactly what you want / need to know. If all you require is to find out how your members are distributed geographically rather than "who is where" then a poll might provide you with the answer; it could work fairly well if all or the greater majority of your subscribers are in the US, but rather less well if they are distributed around the globe.

Set up a poll on your group asking members to record in which of the following times zones they live, with a separate "question" for each of the US time zones.(Of which there are seven by my reckoning). It might be prudent to include a "None of the above" so that anyone outside the US can provide an answer; it would be impractical to include every time zone.

You should probably include in the preamble that the poll cannot be completed by email and that members will thus have to log in and use the web UI; this is the big weakness of polls because anecdotal evidence points towards there being quite a significant percentage of group members who for whatever reason cannot or will not log in and use the web UI.

Chris

Hi - I seem to have a similar problem. I have (in order):

• set the default sub time zone (to London)
• invited a couple of members
• accepted the invitations (these are test addresses of my own)

If I send a few messages around and log in as one of those members the messages all have (I am guessing) Pacific time - for example a message sent/received at 17:03 London time shows a 9:03. I've double and triple checked and the groups settings for sub defaults are definitely set to London/Dublin etc, not the default.
Any ideas?
Richard

On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 12:43 PM, Richard Waller wrote:

Hi - I seem to have a similar problem. I have (in order):

• set the default sub time zone (to London)
• invited a couple of members
• accepted the invitations (these are test addresses of my own)

If I send a few messages around and log in as one of those members the messages all have (I am guessing) Pacific time - for example a message sent/received at 17:03 London time shows a 9:03. I've double and triple checked and the groups settings for sub defaults are definitely set to London/Dublin etc, not the default.
Any ideas?

Have you set the preferences for your email account?

Please read this wiki page: ?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Profile-and-Email-Address-and-Merging-Accounts%2C-Subscription

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Hi Frances,

Thanks, but I have sussed it. During my testing I was unsubscribing and resubscribing email addresses but not deleting their accounts. So an account created before I had set the time zone for the group held on to the default time zone even when I unsubscribed and resubscribed it. Having deleted the accounts and then resubscribed the email addresses (and thus recreated their accounts) they have picked up the group time zone. All makes sense.

Kind regards,

Richard