Code review comment for lp:~jonas-drange/account-polld/missing-gmail-notifications

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Jonas G. Drange (jonas-drange) wrote :

> Does the Gmail API have as many information about us as the website?

Yeah, it knows exactly who is using the API—the logged in gmail user.

> Can (and does) it find out our timezone?

Seems the gmail web site uses some form of algorithm to deduce the timezone, primarily using the device running the browser's tz settings. Try changing your device's tz setting and reload the gmail web site—all times should now reflect your local tz.

> As you said, there is no documentation about it, so basically we do not know
> if the current code works properly or not, right? Shouldn't we go the save way
> then?

I think this is safe, and if not, we have about 20 days to change it. Is that okay for you? I.e. if it doesn't work for most (running rc proposed), we change it to one day.

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