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Draft reminder emails need to show UTC times, and show draft submission tool closures if relevant #1825

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ietf-svn-bot opened this issue Oct 21, 2015 · 5 comments · May be fixed by #6600
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Draft reminder emails need to show UTC times, and show draft submission tool closures if relevant #1825

ietf-svn-bot opened this issue Oct 21, 2015 · 5 comments · May be fixed by #6600
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keyword_sprint type_defect | by [email protected]

(had a lot of trouble creating a login and getting ticket privileges to create this bug report. Never mind finding the bug link at datatracker - bottom of page.)

email reminders say when a draft expires, but not that you can't submit?

From Ryan Cross via RT [email protected]

To: Wood L Dr (Elec Electronic Eng);

Thu 22/10/2015 4:45 AM

Hello Lloyd,

Thank you for your submission. This is an issue the IETF Tools Team should
address. Please use the "Report a Bug" link at the bottom of this page:
http://datatracker.ietf.org/ to raise this with the tools team. This way you
will be notified of changes in status of the issue. If you are unable to do
enter the bug for any reason let me know and I can enter it on your behalf.

Thank You,
Ryan Cross
AMS

On Mon Oct 19 22:58:53 2015, [email protected] wrote:

Well, this is mildly irritating.

Had a bunch of warnings about drafts expiring:

IETF Secretariat [email protected]
To [email protected] Oct 19 at 10:42 PM
The following draft will expire soon:

Name: draft-wood-tsvwg-saratoga
Title: Saratoga: A Scalable Data Transfer Protocol
State: I-D Exists
Expires: 2015-10-20 (in 19 hours, 17 minutes)

Drafts were expiring sometime on the 20th of October (in, one
presumes, the US, because no timezone was given, and the IETF is
very much a US organisation. I live in Australia, no timezone for
expiry time given on these emails.)

So I refreshed the draft ready to do the necessary six-month
accounting. Only to discover that I-D submission had already closed
at midnight UTC on the 19th because of the upcoming IETF meeting.
Which wasn't mentioned in the email.

Why not state the earlier submission deadline as well as a hard limit?
Why aren't timezones stated?

Bravo for https://datatracker.ietf.org/submit/ stating timezones, if
not consistently.

Please file lack of timezones and lack of consideration of early
submission deadlines as a bug.

thanks
Lloyd Wood
http://about.me/lloydwood

Issue migrated from trac:1825 at 2022-03-04 04:47:37 +0000
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@rjsparks rjsparks added the contrib-easy Easy dev difficulty for contribution label Jul 13, 2023
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richsalz commented Nov 4, 2023

Should we make everything be UTC?

diff --git a/ietf/utils/timezone.py b/ietf/utils/timezone.py
index a396b5e82..308c8f0ef 100644
--- a/ietf/utils/timezone.py
+++ b/ietf/utils/timezone.py
@@ -12,12 +12,12 @@ from django.utils import timezone
 # require code changes.
 #
 # Default time zone for deadlines / expiration dates.
-DEADLINE_TZINFO = ZoneInfo('PST8PDT')
+DEADLINE_TZINFO = ZoneInfo('UTC')
 
 # Time zone for dates from the RPC. This value is baked into the timestamps on DocEvents
 # of type="published_rfc" - see Document.pub_date() and ietf.sync.refceditor.update_docs_from_rfc_index()
 # for more information about how that works.
-RPC_TZINFO = ZoneInfo('PST8PDT')
+RPC_TZINFO = ZoneInfo('UTC')
 
 
 def _tzinfo(tz: Union[str, datetime.tzinfo, None]):

Probably need to update the text in some places to indicate it is UTC.

meadmaker added a commit to meadmaker/datatracker that referenced this issue Nov 4, 2023
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Display document expiration in UTC
7c9aa36 
The document expiration mail displays the date of the upcoming document expiration, but different timezones makes that date ambituous.  Instead, clearly show that as a timestamp in UTC.

Fixes ietf-tools#1825
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