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Update timezone language #18

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<problem parent_sequential_url="i4x://edX/DemoX/sequential/workflow" index_in_children_list="5" display_name="Interactive Questions" max_attempts="" rerandomize="never" showanswer="always" weight="">
<p>Most courses have interactive questions that test your knowledge like the one below. They can be part of a learning sequence or an exam. Notice the visual feedback. Go ahead, try it out!</p>
<p>Questions which are part of assignments or exams may have due dates - the last possible time you can submit an assignment for grading. Once this time has passed, you will not be able to get credit for any incomplete problems in the assignment.</p>
<p>If an assignment has a due date, you can see the due date in the accordion on the side. (This demo course does not have any due date.) If no due date is displayed, the assignment can be turned in at any time.</p>
<p>All assignment due dates are listed in UTC (the international time standard). Please <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/">look up your time zone</a> in order to understand what time your assignments are due according to your clock. EdX cannot offer any extensions.</p>
<p>If an assignment has a due date, you can see the due date in the sidebar. (This demo course does not have any assignments with due dates.) If no due date is displayed, the assignment can be turned in at any time.</p>
<p>All assignment due dates are listed in the user's specified timezone, defaulting to UTC (the international time standard) if one has not been chosen. EdX cannot offer any extensions.</p>
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@efischer19 @yro Is it still true that the assignment dates will default to UTC if a user has not specified a time zone? I thought browser time zone would be used for assignment dates if a time zone wasn't set in account settings.

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@efischer19 If you don't mind, can we also make a couple of changes to the paragraph previous to the one where time zone is mentioned.
"...you can see the due date in the accordion on the side" -> "you can see the due date in the sidebar."
"This demo course does not have any due date." -> "This demo course does not have any assignments with due dates."

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Definitely, that's why I tagged our neighborhood doc expert 😃

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We will attempt to determine the user's system timezone, and failing that, will revert to UTC.

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Wait, so how does the user's preference-selected timezone figure into that?

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I'm confused too. Does user's "system timezone" = their account specified timezone or their browser timezone?

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Ah yes, it goes, in order of preference user preference -> system timezone -> UTC. (you can maybe leave out UTC, that's really just a 'nothing worked, so we're bailing out' handler).

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@efischer19 How about this:
"All assignment due dates are displayed in the time zone that you select in your account settings. If you do not specify a time zone, assignment due dates display in your browser's time zone."
Also, I'm in favor of dropping the last sentence re extensions. It seems out of place here.

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