backend/research.md

Proposed Tech stack

• NodeJS
• Express
• Postgresql
• Luxon

Database architecture

See: https://dbdiagram.io/d/5e769ab14495b02c3b88936f

How to deal with date and time in PostgreSQL?

• use datetime datatype without timezone (datetime with timezone is using offset, which doesn't work well with DST)
• store datetime in UTC
• add timezone information separately, use Full time zone name (human friendly)
• use ISO 8601 format, which is human friendly to read and supported by every library

See:

• https://www.moesif.com/blog/technical/timestamp/manage-datetime-timestamp-timezones-in-api/
• https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-datetime.html

Inspiration

• Framadate:https://framadate.org/
• Omnipointment: https://omnipointment.com
• When is Good: http://whenisgood.net/
• MRDA 2019 Secretary spreadsheets ;)