Athlo Blog

We made some tweaks to the way we think about dates and times on the site.  Athlo is now aware of time zones.  Let’s say you live in San Francisco and log a run at 6pm.  Your friend in New York checks your recent activities at 9:15pm his time.  What does he see?  9:15pm - 6pm = you ran 3hrs 15mins ago, or does it? In reality, 6pm your time is 9pm his time and you ran only 15 minutes ago.  If your brain is hurting because of the time zone math, don’t worry, we’ve taken care of it.  Athlo now knows about your friends around the world.  When Switzerland resident and Athlo user Sarah Apgar logs a workout and 15 minutes transpire, everyone will see 15 minutes ago when they view her profile regardless of their time zone.  Check your settings page to ensure your time zone is properly set.

Some of you told us that you felt the drag/drop calendar interface was lacking because there was no trash can to drag workouts to in order to delete them.  In the bottom right of the calendar we’ve added just that.  Simply drag any workout that’s on your calendar that you don’t want to the trash and it’ll be deleted. We think it’s one of those tiny additions that make the site much easier to use.

We’ve made several other back end changes like enhanced page caching to speed up page load times, but we’ll spare you the geeky details.  Just know that we’re continuing to clean up and enhance some of the existing features on the site in parallel with the development of new features.  As always, your input is valueable so let us know what you’re thinking in the comments.

Tags: cache, calendar, time zones

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