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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Hippo on May 15, 2004, 08:58:04 pm

Title: A solution to the Time Problem?
Post by: Hippo on May 15, 2004, 08:58:04 pm
There's been a lot of talk about confusion with time zones and such; I've made a little site to take care of that...

The Official FreeSpace Time! (http://swooh.com/peon/hippo/freespace)

Methinks we should adopt it as the 'Official' FreeSpace time, since my 1337 html skills and a lot of googleing has enabled me to display the time we should all go by, along with your current time...

Questions? Comments?
Title: A solution to the Time Problem?
Post by: jdjtcagle on May 15, 2004, 09:02:35 pm
Sweet...
That will come in handy :)
Title: A solution to the Time Problem?
Post by: Knight Templar on May 15, 2004, 09:04:44 pm
Isn't that what GMT is for...
Title: A solution to the Time Problem?
Post by: Hippo on May 15, 2004, 09:06:16 pm
yes, but half the people here seem to not know what time zone they are in compared to GMT, nor do they know enough about military time or zulu time to convert it...
Title: A solution to the Time Problem?
Post by: jdjtcagle on May 15, 2004, 09:06:54 pm
ya...
that's me, stupid kids :D
Title: A solution to the Time Problem?
Post by: Ace on May 15, 2004, 09:11:31 pm
Bah! Now this *would* be impressive if it converted things to Galactic Vasudan Time :)
Title: I wonder if there's a way to convert my windows clock to GVT...
Post by: Taristin on May 15, 2004, 09:18:10 pm
Indeed. What say you, Hippo?

Also, it doesn't work under Nutscrape.
Title: A solution to the Time Problem?
Post by: Carl on May 15, 2004, 09:21:07 pm
wouldn't this actually make it worse?
Title: A solution to the Time Problem?
Post by: Thorn on May 15, 2004, 09:22:49 pm
Mozilla=Fail
Title: A solution to the Time Problem?
Post by: WMCoolmon on May 15, 2004, 09:40:42 pm
Doesn't work under Firefox.

Another Internet Exploiter-only thingamajig...:p
Title: A solution to the Time Problem?
Post by: DragonClaw on May 15, 2004, 10:26:49 pm
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Originally posted by WMCoolmon
Another Internet Exploiter-only thingamajig...:p


And since my IE is all screwed up... bah.
Title: A solution to the Time Problem?
Post by: Xelion on May 16, 2004, 01:02:27 am
Good Idea but I think the layout and some script needs to be updated to work in all browsers..
Title: A solution to the Time Problem?
Post by: Martinus on May 16, 2004, 05:16:07 am
[color=66ff00]*lives in Ireland*
GMT+0 Baby! I am center of the universe! :D
[/color]
Title: A solution to the Time Problem?
Post by: an0n on May 16, 2004, 05:19:54 am
No British Summer Time?

And shouldn't the year be like 360-odd years forward?
Title: A solution to the Time Problem?
Post by: JarC on May 16, 2004, 05:25:23 am
hmmmm...so you still need to account for timezone diffs...better would be to use internet time, that way we all look at the same time....no matter which timezone...
Title: A solution to the Time Problem?
Post by: Hippo on May 16, 2004, 05:32:09 am
The uppermost time block is focused on internet time (or as much of it i could find)... I was looking for the one where everything is 1-4000 to ues, but couldn't...

As for mozilla, netscape, and firefox, its pretty basic HTML... I did find some that ONLY worked in netscape, but they're all weird (imho) if they can't display that...
Title: A solution to the Time Problem?
Post by: Sandwich on May 16, 2004, 06:29:58 am
GMT sucks. UTC all the way, baby! :p
Title: A solution to the Time Problem?
Post by: kode on May 16, 2004, 06:31:46 am
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Originally posted by Sandwich
GMT sucks. UTC all the way, baby! :p


I go by Biel Mean Time myself.
Title: A solution to the Time Problem?
Post by: karajorma on May 16, 2004, 06:36:54 am
Quote
Originally posted by Sandwich
GMT sucks. UTC all the way, baby! :p


and this one is upset cause they weren't even in the running for the meridian :D
Title: A solution to the Time Problem?
Post by: Hippo on May 16, 2004, 06:50:07 am
It is UTC... hence why i'm 7 hours behind instead of 5...
Title: A solution to the Time Problem?
Post by: castor on May 16, 2004, 07:38:53 am
Mozilla is no go, but works fine with Konqueror.
How very odd, surreal..
Title: A solution to the Time Problem?
Post by: kasperl on May 16, 2004, 07:42:30 am
meh, saw the IE version, and I saw the code....

Wouldn't it be better to grab the server's time using PHP or something? Local clocks can be waaay off.
Title: A solution to the Time Problem?
Post by: an0n on May 16, 2004, 07:55:07 am
Yeah and server clocks are poifect.
Title: A solution to the Time Problem?
Post by: kasperl on May 16, 2004, 09:53:51 am
Nope, but they are equally off for everybody.
Title: A solution to the Time Problem?
Post by: Turnsky on May 16, 2004, 10:05:04 am
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
Title: A solution to the Time Problem?
Post by: JarC on May 16, 2004, 10:24:24 am
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Originally posted by Hippo
The uppermost time block is focused on internet time (or as much of it i could find)... I was looking for the one where everything is 1-4000 to ues, but couldn't
duh? internet time runs from 0 to 1000 !!

k try this clock (http://freespace.kicks-ass.net/clock.htm)
Title: A solution to the Time Problem?
Post by: Hippo on May 16, 2004, 10:26:02 am
yeah, thats it...