[Request] searchable or manually input timezone widget

Former Member over 10 years ago

I hope that someone can help me to build a timezone widget work as following :

When I input a city's / town's name ,the watch would automatically select the correct timezone and display it on the watch as a dual time widget for me ( may be using garmin time zone map as references ?!)

If the above following idea couldn't be done ..still I hope someone can create a dual time widget , that let users to
input the correct timezone themselves (like the one on suunto ambit's) ...

Thanks a lot

Nikeow over 10 years ago

if not mistaken, currently the SDK does not allow for any sort of user input w/ the exception of it being a full blown app.

I may be corrected if this is not the case.

the widget, however may be able to query current GPS position, send a request to some api somewhere and provide the time-zone of that location.

travis.vitek over 10 years ago

if not mistaken, currently the SDK does not allow for any sort of user input w/ the exception of it being a full blown app.

Apps and widgets can request user input via the TextInputDelegate, but that isn't supported on all devices (not on vivoactive). A developer could use a Menu system to select the time zone.

may be able to query current GPS position, send a request to some api somewhere and provide the time-zone of that location.

Yes, you could do that as well.

The difficult is that the rules for daylight transitions vary based on political rules. The DST rules in the United States are determined by the U.S. Congress, but then can be amended by states, counties, municipalities, ... Currently the DST rules in the United States force us to roll clocks forward 2:00am on the second Sunday of March roll them back at 2:00am on the first Sunday of November. Those rules are simple enough, but you'd want to properly support other countries. To be thorough, the developer would need to support some sort of database of the daylight rules. These would need to be deployed on device (or accessible to the device).

Travis

jim_m_58 over 10 years ago

Currently the DST rules in the United States force us to roll clocks forward 2:00am on the second Sunday of March roll them back at 2:00am on the first Sunday of November.
Travis

Except in Hawaii and Arizona (well, except a few parts)! I haven't had to change my clocks in years.. I'm always MST... :). So it's not even defined by country and TZ...

That's why in windows, there is actually a TZ setting called "Arizona"!

travis.vitek over 10 years ago

Yes, I covered that above...

The DST rules in the United States are determined by the U.S. Congress, but then can be amended by states, counties, municipalities, ...

jim_m_58 over 10 years ago

Yes, I covered that above...

Just showing two cases where it does vary by state! I think it's now limited to states (or reservations), after a county in Ohio(?) used to be in a different TZ than the rest of the state, and they had to change. While the state of AZ doesn't do DST, one of the reservations with in the state does do DST...