General help

Thanks. I did post at an ungodly hour - my sleep pattern is woefully irregular - though not as blasphemous as 4:40 AM. As a poet once wrote: "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."

Thanks. Actually, the way I understand Mary's reply, Moodle does not behave in the friendliest possible way, since it does not have a filter similar to Discord's timestamps that enables the users to type in a date in ATTO, say, and this date would be automatically displayed in the local timezone of the respective viewers.

If Moodle did have a filter like this, then the suggestion you made in this other thread to use the Choice activity for scheduling a group meeting between people dispersed in multiple time zones would be a little more viable as an alternative to Doodle.

I understand the confusion that may result from displaying a date without time zone information, but there are ways to resolve this without giving up the convenience of an automatically time zone adjusted date. For instance, if every time zone adjusted date would be accompanied by a little visual indicator, the way links that open in a different tab are often accompanied by the icon . Such a visual indicator could even be the literal time zone abbreviation (e.g. "IST"), but it would be automatically injected by a filter and adjusted to the viewer's local timezone, rather than set in immutable form by the writer of the date. A Discord timestamp is distinguished from regular text by a darker background color and by a tool tip that pops up when the cursor hovers over it.

By the way, writing out a time zone abbreviation is not a panacea for time zone confusion: "IST" is both "India Standard Time" (UTC+5:30) as well as "Israel Standard Time" (UTC+2:00).