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Re: Viewing Local Time as opposed to GMT?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sun, 26 Mar 2000 15:52:38 GMT
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lar@voyager+stopspammers+.net
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Richard Franks wrote:
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> As a Brit, having LUGNET run on GMT is great, so I can't really complain when
> the UK goes into BST and I get all confused :) Is there a low-cpu intensive way
> to display the time local to where the person is though? If it was a
> member-feature then the system would already have a clue as to where the person
> lived.. which would also work as a limiting factor (cpu-wise).
Turn on a clock on your display... I have on in my system tray under NT.
X has a nice clock that can be digital or analog in appearance.
eBay has a way to tell what time it is on the server. Dunno if Lugnet
needs that at this point in the game but maybe someday... if Todd
implements fixed ending time auctions (hopefully not).
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> Actually, thinking ahead.. this may be best done client side - and with the
> funky stuff that Jeremy Sproat and others are working on, it is totally
> possible :)
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> Richard
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| Larry: (...) I understand Richard's request in a slightly different way than you seem to. It would be very nice if the _time_stamps_ on the articles could be presented in local time for the individual readers. (...) Probably right about that, but it (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| As a Brit, having LUGNET run on GMT is great, so I can't really complain when the UK goes into BST and I get all confused :) Is there a low-cpu intensive way to display the time local to where the person is though? If it was a member-feature then (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general) !
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