HM Time

Overview

Build a WordPress plugin to define working hours / timezones for users of the WordPress database. Expose the data through JSON API endpoints, preferably leverageing the WP-API Plugin. This will act as a centralized store for general working hours of the Human Made team, and will be displayed in a variety of ways. For example, a Timezone widget on our internal p2 website, a hubot command in HipChat, any time interective / visualization.

Detail

Each user should have the following data stored:

• Timezone
• Working Hours Start Time
• Working Hours End Time

For example, Joe Hoyle: Europe/London, working 08:00 to 18:00.

We currently have a widget that shows something like this, but there is no data backend (what this project hopes to provide)

The JSON API is also an important component so we can use this data elsewhere, and I imagine would have endpoints somethign like:

GET /api/time/now

Returns a list of users with their timezones and working hours

The reason I put "now" is if in the future we were to integrate vacatios etc, this endpoint would just reflect the people who are curently working, where as /api/time may return all the users and data with working schedules etc.

For data entry, we should probably just add some extra fields to the Edit User admin page for their TZ, start and end workign hours. I imagine in the future we could have endpoints in the API for updating the time, so we would implement a simple mobile optimized website and allow poeple to update their timezone. Better yet - use Zapier to take Foursquare check-ins and push the timezone to /api/time/user/joe to update my timezone!