Posted at Fri 17 June 2011 03:51PM

By Rosie Williams

Over coming weeks we are rolling out a raft of extra features on Collective Action set to make the site much more useful to members and non-members alike. Our new time zone feature will get its first real run this weekend with the End Live Export Rallies on Saturday 18 June and the End Mandatory Detention Rallies on Sunday 19th.

As can be seen from the End Live Export Rallies, all rallies around Australia are set to begin at mid day. The new time zone feature added to Collective Action provides for the issues raised for events which occur across different time zones. In reality 12 midday in Perth is 2pm in the Eastern states with Adelaide & Darwin half an hour behind AEST. Collective Action is now set up to deal with these time differences from wherever you are viewing our site.

There are two options for time display on Collective Action events, one is the version you see if you are not a 'member' of Collective Action. The other is the 'logged-in' version which allows you to set the time zone you wish to view events in.

If you are a member you can also set a location which will filter your future searches of Collective Action database to those occuring at that location however non-members can also filter searches manually using the interface.

For non-members/logged-out users, Collective Action events are listed in their local time zone and also Canberra/Australian Eastern Standard Time which is particularly useful with global events. You can watch a Perth event from Sydney in real time because the system shows you the time in AEST(Canberra time) as well.

 

  

People who sign-up with Collective Action are able to set the time zone in which they want to view events so that events are shown 'in your local time'- the time zone of your choosing. This zone can be changed at any time.

  

 

Our site statistics show that people really enjoy watching evens happen through live tweeting so the added information giving time zone differences makes it just that much easier to keep your finger on the pulse!