MIT TechTime at LNS

TechTime is calendaring software which is being used throughout MIT. With it you can keep track of your daily events and those of others, invite people from MIT to meetings and view your calendar, tasks lists and daily notes in various formats. TechTime supports off-line operations for laptop users, and supports syncronization with PDA's. It allows you to designate other users to be your calendar proxy. In fact TechTime has all the functionality of Meeting Maker, the calendaring tool that was used at LNS up to recent times.

This page will help you in getting started. For more information about TechTime, see the MIT About TechTime page.

Preparing to use TechTime

TechTime is available to MIT Students, Faculty and Staff. Visitors to LNS and others will able to use TechTime if they obtain an Athena account.

In order to use TechTime you must activate your TechTime account. Do this at the TechTime 'Activation Page'. You will need an MIT Personal Certificate. The process of activation takes only about a minute.

Using TechTime

Web Based Version

The quickest way to use TechTime is to use the Web version which is available at http://calendar.mit.edu. You can access this using any of the usual Web browsers.

Native Client

MIT is now supporting TechTime 9.0.4 for Macintosh and for Windows. This can be downloaded from the MIT TechTime desktop client information and download page. Please contact your local computer administrator for installation support.

The first time that you use the client, you will be prompted to create an offline set of files. You will be prompted to supply a local password, and then to confirm it. If you are the only user of the machine, it is safe to use a blank password: otherwise you must enter this password everytime you start up the client.

In order to use the native client you must have MIT Kerberos installed. This is available as well from the MIT software distribution site. Before logging into your TechTime account with the native client you must have active Kerberos tickets. If you don't, you will get an error message to the effect that the server is not available.

MIT will soon be supporting a native client for linux. Contact Dave Woodruff for more information.

Synchronizing Your PDA

Software is available for synchronizing TechTime with PDA's. Contact Dave Woodruff for information.


David S. Woodruff, MIT Lab for Nuclear Science

(Last modified Jan. 7, 2004)