What's the time?

[mudskipper]

BBC slammed for misleading viewers because its homepage clock is 'inaccurate' | Mail Online

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The Managing Editor of BBC Online was quoted in the reported saying that making the clock accurate would 'dramatically slow down the loading of the BBC homepage' and the work needed to do it would 'take around 100 staffing days'.

I'll bid 90 days. Any advances?

[Old Greg]

BBC slammed for misleading viewers because its homepage clock is 'inaccurate' | Mail Online

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I'll bid 90 days. Any advances?

The Mail thinks it's still 1936.

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BBC slammed for misleading viewers because its homepage clock is 'inaccurate' | Mail Online

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I'll bid 90 days. Any advances?

100 days to add a single json request to get the current time, work out the offset value and add it to the current system time

Mind you he's probably correct. its probably 5-10 days work with 20 days of management time and 70 days of testing. Which is why I did is plan c (see below).

[NickFitz]

100 days to add a single json request to get the current time, work out the offset value and add it to the current system time

You've just fallen into the trap of failing to solve the problem, and in fact reproducing the original problem in a rather more complicated form. The whole point is that the system time can't be involved in any way, as it cannot be trusted. If a user has their clock set to a timezone offset several hours different from where they are, their locale set to a location several hours different in the other direction, and is accessing the Internet through a proxy server on the other side of the world from their location, you can't show them an accurate time. And as the complaint was not that the clock was inaccurate, but rather that it could be inaccurate due to relying on the system time, you're back at square one.

As precisely one person has complained, I don't understand why they don't just tell them to **** off. It's probably one of those morons who thinks the BBC is out to get them or something (of which there are a surprisingly large number on here). Useless twats

[Mich the Tester]

You've just fallen into the trap of failing to solve the problem, and in fact reproducing the original problem in a rather more complicated form. The whole point is that the system time can't be involved in any way, as it cannot be trusted. If a user has their clock set to a timezone offset several hours different from where they are, their locale set to a location several hours different in the other direction, and is accessing the Internet through a proxy server on the other side of the world from their location, you can't show them an accurate time. And as the complaint was not that the clock was inaccurate, but rather that it could be inaccurate due to relying on the system time, you're back at square one.

As precisely one person has complained, I don't understand why they don't just tell them to **** off. It's probably one of those morons who thinks the BBC is out to get them or something (of which there are a surprisingly large number on here). Useless twats

You're falling into the trap of solving the problem instead of keeping it in place and invoicing.

[Mich the Tester]

The Mail wishes it's still 1936.

ftfy

[mudskipper]

You've just fallen into the trap of failing to solve the problem, and in fact reproducing the original problem in a rather more complicated form. The whole point is that the system time can't be involved in any way, as it cannot be trusted. If a user has their clock set to a timezone offset several hours different from where they are, their locale set to a location several hours different in the other direction, and is accessing the Internet through a proxy server on the other side of the world from their location, you can't show them an accurate time. And as the complaint was not that the clock was inaccurate, but rather that it could be inaccurate due to relying on the system time, you're back at square one.

As precisely one person has complained, I don't understand why they don't just tell them to **** off. It's probably one of those morons who thinks the BBC is out to get them or something (of which there are a surprisingly large number on here). Useless twats

You show 'em GMT (or BST) and allow them to select their offset. Simples.
The weather shows me London unless I select my location. Same thing.

[NickFitz]

You're falling into the trap of solving the problem instead of keeping it in place and invoicing.

Sadly, the correct solution of telling the moron who complained to **** off has been rejected by the client, and the whole project has consequently been scrapped

[mudskipper]

So if I complain that the weather's inaccurate, they'll remove that too?

[MarillionFan]

So if I complain that the weather's inaccurate, they'll remove that too?

Only if its pointing at your laptop and you've set the weather to 'Always tulipty'