Would be awesome if it was possible to set a timezone per profile so the Calendar would show the episodes on the days according to the timezone of each user.
I've seen this feature around on other sites, but I always found it quite confusing. Perhaps you can help me understand the use of it? In which scenarios does it clarify your overview of when your shows air?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm going to assume that the most common scenario is someone from Europe following a show that airs at primetime in the US. This means that your local time when the episode airs would be something like 2AM or 3AM.
TV shows air almost exclusively in the evening. If I look at the calendar and see shows listed on wednesday, this would normally mean I can watch them on wednesday evening. Of course in the cross-country example above that's not true, and it would be wednesday night or thursday morning when you could watch the episode at the earliest. But in that case, does showing the episode on thursday (which you would interpret as: I can watch it on thursday evening) make more sense than on wednesday?
I think that people use it to keep track of when the stream (or whatever online) of the show will show up online in their timezone?
That's just my understanding though, and since I'm in the US I just use the calendar for the day the show's on.
Now tracked here: http://www.tvmaze.com/threads/122/episode-airdate-...
I'd love to see this feature as well.
Since I'm in Europe, follow both UK/US/AUS shows, putting them all in the same calenderdate is confusing to me.
Shows that air in the US: add a day
Shows that air in the UK: same day
Shows that air Downunder: substract a day
Hmm, better to give my local time in my profile and have the calender set to that, that way all shows will show up on the correct day for me.
This was the way TVRage had things organized and the main reason for me to use their calendar.
If you add in the airtime as well, I'd get to see a nice list of how late what starts where and I can find them on the net later.
I live in the Central Time Zone and when i look at the Calendar of shows airing or when i have them export to my calendar the time is WAY off as much as 2-3 hours. if you had a set time zone feature per-profile it would mean that when someone looks at they're ical feed the time is correct for that time zone. especially if someone enjoys watching a show as it airs as unheard of that is now!
I live in the Central Time Zone and when i look at the Calendar of shows airing or when i have them export to my calendar the time is WAY off as much as 2-3 hours. if you had a set time zone feature per-profile it would mean that when someone looks at they're ical feed the time is correct for that time zone. especially if someone enjoys watching a show as it airs as unheard of that is now!
Weird -- I live the Central time zone also, but my feed to google calendar is exactly correct.
I live in the Central Time Zone and when i look at the Calendar of shows airing or when i have them export to my calendar the time is WAY off as much as 2-3 hours. if you had a set time zone feature per-profile it would mean that when someone looks at they're ical feed the time is correct for that time zone. especially if someone enjoys watching a show as it airs as unheard of that is now!
Weird -- I live the Central time zone also, but my feed to google calendar is exactly correct.
Indeed, this is completely separate from the (API and iCal) feeds. Those contain full timezone information for the episodes, so any client that supports it (Google Calendar does) can display the episodes in your local timezone.
cedro wNrote:
Would be awesome if it was possible to set a timezone per profile so the Calendar would show the episodes on the days according to the timezone of each user.
I would like this too -- I'm "down-under" -- makes a day difference in what I can look forward to viewing. Not a big deal, but a nice-to-have.
I'm closing this thread.
Seeing as this is by far the most requested feature on our list, it'll likely be the first thing to implement as soon as we'll have the time for new features. :)
This is now possible!