Reply to: What's the time?

[eek]

You can display the timezone next to the clock. Probably easier than trying to guess timezone.

The problem of accurate time still exists, you'd need to do something similar to ntp which uses system time to compute rtt to the server. Then you could compute the offset from the server time and use the system clock to provide ticks.

Which was what I suggested in my original comment. either way ho hum and

[SimonMac]

As we are now on page 4 with no agreed consensus of opinion, maybe they were right to just remove it?!

[doodab]

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.

You can display the timezone next to the clock. Probably easier than trying to guess timezone.

The problem of accurate time still exists, you'd need to do something similar to ntp which uses system time to compute rtt to the server. Then you could compute the offset from the server time and use the system clock to provide ticks.

[NickFitz]

My proposal just…

Whenever I encounter a phrase like "just do x", I know that x will turn out to be either ludicrously complex or provably impossible

[Mich the Tester]

100 days?
10 days to write up the spec.
20 days for management review
30 days of committee review
20 days project management documentation
10 days to find an IT contractor
5 days IT contractor waiting for system access
4 days contractor surfing Internet for solution
2 hours writing new clock code
5 hours tea break

What happened to the daily thirty pound dump?

[SimonMac]

100 days?
10 days to write up the spec.
20 days for management review
30 days of committee review
20 days project management documentation
10 days to find an IT contractor
5 days IT contractor waiting for system access
4 days contractor surfing Internet for solution
2 hours writing new clock code
5 hours tea break

POTD

[Paddy]

100 days?
10 days to write up the spec.
20 days for management review
30 days of committee review
20 days project management documentation
10 days to find an IT contractor
5 days IT contractor waiting for system access
4 days contractor surfing Internet for solution
2 hours writing new clock code
5 hours tea break

[vetran]

Ill did it much cheapness, plenty quickness 210 days.


Bob Shawadiwadi

FTFY

whichever muppet thought of using the local clock should be shot.

[mudskipper]

How about a live webcam pointing at a clock?

[SimonMac]

26 posts and no one has done:



Or



For shame on you all!

[mudskipper]

The clock thing has already got a location next to it which you can change - so hardly going to present too much of a UI design challenge.

[xoggoth]

WTF? Not the greatest web expert but I could do that in an hour or two with a bit of php, a hidden iframe and Lagado.

[MarillionFan]

I've never been to the BBC homepage - I always go straight to the news page.

Remove the clock. Simple. I'll do it in 80 days.

Ill do it much cheapness, plenty quickness 2 days.


Bob Shawadiwadi

[TheFaQQer]

I've never been to the BBC homepage - I always go straight to the news page.

Remove the clock. Simple. I'll do it in 80 days.

[mudskipper]

Gosh.

Sommat else I didn't know.

Indeedy. Perfectly simple. If one wanted to big up the job, one could click the detected location and give the user the option to change it.