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[timfoster]

The timezone calculation on the front page looks pretty venerable. The hack to set the timezone for the entire page is certainly interesting!

I had a go at fixing it and wonder if this might be a cleaner way to get "Solihull time":

function writeTimeLong()
{
   d = new Date();
   document.writeln(d.toLocaleTimeString('en-GB', { timeZone: 'Europe/London' }))
   document.writeln(d.toLocaleDateString('en-GB', {
      timeZone: 'Europe/London',
      weekday: 'long',
      year: 'numeric',
      month: 'long',
      day: 'numeric'}));
}

Then just remove all the other timezone related javascript functions, along with the 'ONLOAD="jsClockTimeZone()"' parameter of the body html tag, and drop the <form> stuff in favour of a script tag that just invokes "writeTimeLong()"

I'm not a web developer, but that seemed to do the trick on a copy of the page I had here locally, which I've dropped up at https://gist.github.com/timfoster/d2d0272b0a6a1ab690a238a200d4e259

Perhaps those weird hacks were there for older browser compatibility?

 - tim

[timfoster]

(I think the problem was that the page was displaying in UTC still, despite our best efforts to calculate a GMT offset, or perhaps Firefox fixed a bug around BST calculation? I don't know. Javascript and browser compatibility is the devil's work!)

[Wittsend]

The coding I used comes from the days of Netscape and in those days browser compatibility was a problem.

I'll have a go at using your "fix".

It would be nice if I didn't have to change the code twice a year.

[Wittsend]

Well, I've put the code in place.

Everything is as it was for me - then maybe it's using my browser cache

Need you folks to test it, else I'll have to wait until October 

If the website goes "funny" post here and I'll put toehold file back.

If those with the wrong time could login in to the S2C members area, then the time should go funny again, as I've not "updated" the time fix there yet!



 

[diffwhine]

Its showing the right time now. Many thanks.

[Wittsend]

If time has been fixed for all, then I'll give Mr Tim Foster a credit and update the time in the members only section.

The Forum time is a totally different thing handled by the SMF forum software and that more or less looks after itself.

Just have to cure the hash # in text problem.


 

[Bonnet-rouge]

Both times the same here 

[diffwhine]

So it wasn't just me having a mental aberration then!

[Wittsend]

Time is a funny thing...

This topic is really about Firefox and wether it's working properly with the forum.

[Peter Holden]

It is cos your are Irish and have to be different  (I dont really mean that)

Peter

[diffwhine]

The Irish have to be different to the English. We have to have something to argue about! This time is a time difference , next time it could just be just Gaelic superiority... 

[timfoster]

Sorry, just catching up on this post - it looks like the page still has all of the old timezone-offset calculation code still in place, perhaps with a different hardcoded hour-offset, rather than the changes I'd suggested on the github gist url above? (I see my name in the credits though, so it's definitely not cached content :-)

Like I say though, perhaps that old code is more compatible with older browsers, so maybe it's good enough. If the code works for people now, that's totally fine by me - nothing wrong with applying a big hammer to solve a problem, every now and then!

- tim

[diffwhine]

Tim,
Its all ancient Greek to me! I can't understand one word of what you are talking about! 

My IT knowledge is evidently more basic than I probably thought!

[Alan Drover]

A 2 year old has more IT knowledge than I have. I don't know how to post photos on forums (fora?).
I'm purely mechanical.

[Dopey]

The time is all wrong for Outer Mongolia