F@H STATS times and timezones
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 8:15 pm
Hi,
I frequently refer to my team's (http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/mai ... num=111065) or my individual page (http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/mai ... e=Berkut37) in order to work out how my PC's are doing. If things don't look good, I get in the car and sort them out. I also cross reference this against 3rd party sites, eg Kakao - GREAT site. But, my point is, team pages have no reference to timezones (individual ones do), and then if we aren't in the timezone referenced we have to work it out. I've PLENTY of experience working cross timezone, and especially taking multinational clock changes into account (country to country, spring/autumn clock changes can NEVER be taken for granted - cf. the Multiple MS updates for windows over the past 18 months to take changes of the clock change date into account.), but I have a request.
Would it be possible to code the USER'S local time into the webpage? e.g. based on content of the cookie? Alternatively, current time and timezone at the point of loading the page would do (e.g page loaded at 21:00:00 UTC) so we can cross reference versus what we are seeing without having to think so hard (Saturday 0200 GMT can be REALLY challenging)
thanks
B37
I frequently refer to my team's (http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/mai ... num=111065) or my individual page (http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/mai ... e=Berkut37) in order to work out how my PC's are doing. If things don't look good, I get in the car and sort them out. I also cross reference this against 3rd party sites, eg Kakao - GREAT site. But, my point is, team pages have no reference to timezones (individual ones do), and then if we aren't in the timezone referenced we have to work it out. I've PLENTY of experience working cross timezone, and especially taking multinational clock changes into account (country to country, spring/autumn clock changes can NEVER be taken for granted - cf. the Multiple MS updates for windows over the past 18 months to take changes of the clock change date into account.), but I have a request.
Would it be possible to code the USER'S local time into the webpage? e.g. based on content of the cookie? Alternatively, current time and timezone at the point of loading the page would do (e.g page loaded at 21:00:00 UTC) so we can cross reference versus what we are seeing without having to think so hard (Saturday 0200 GMT can be REALLY challenging)
thanks
B37