I know you can, but isn't it normal to use a single timezone on a website rather than the user's timezone? I think that would be a standard practice so that the timeline of postings is the same...unless they converted all of them to the user's local time for that user...
-----Original Message----- From: Judah McAuley [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 1:22 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Maddow calls out OReilly on fabricated news You can detect (often) the local time in the browser and convert a UTC (or EST or whatever) datetime to what is local to the visitor. The reason I suspect that that might be happening is that the two times that were being disputed (6:22 and 3:22) are exactly 3 hours apart. Sam, who is on the East Coast, sees it as 6:22 which is 3 hours later than Maureen, who is West Coast. That would be the expected behavior if it was compensating for local time zone of the visitor. But by all means, don't let me get in the way of anyones arguments. Judah On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Eric Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > > Isn't Fox on EST when they post things (just like CNN and MSNBC)? The > website isn't going to show your local time...it's going to show either the > server's local time or the site's set local time. So it wouldn't matter > that Sam is on the East Coast and Maureen is on the West Coast...the site > would display the same time for posts...also...these screen shots weren't > taken by either of the ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:323838 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
