It's been awhile since I have done anything like that and I don't really pay that close attention to the time on sites that I use...I just assumed they used the server time or TZ local to the site owner's locale.
-----Original Message----- From: Medic [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 1:55 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Maddow calls out OReilly on fabricated news Many of the sites I've built are based on the UTC adjusted to the users locale. On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Eric Roberts < [email protected]> wrote: > > 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:323855 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
