It's a service I set up for the last post. Here's the code: import time if __name__ == '__main__': print "Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate" print "Content-type: text/plain\n" print time.time()
Eyal. On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:33 PM, pamela (Google Employee) < [email protected]> wrote: > Agreed, I was just thinking the same thing. Is that your App Engine > app? (Will it remain up as a reliable service?) > > Thanks for sharing the code! > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:49 PM, eyalzh <[email protected]> wrote: > > The way I see it, to overcome the differences between local clocks you > must > > use a robot or a web service that will tell you the time. > > The gadget will make a request to that service whenever it is rendered by > a > > client. Thereafter it will just tick using javascript. > > > > Here is an example of such a service: > > http://everybodywave.appspot.com/whatisthetime.py > > > > Javascript code that can sample it within a gadget: > > > > var sharedTime = null; > > > > var timeServerUrl = > > 'http://everybodywave.appspot.com/whatisthetime.py?ts='+new<http://everybodywave.appspot.com/whatisthetime.py?ts=%27+new> > > Date().getTime(); > > var params = {}; > > params[gadgets.io.RequestParameters.CONTENT_TYPE] = > > gadgets.io.ContentType.TEXT; > > gadgets.io.makeRequest(timeServerUrl, onTimeServerAnswer, params); > > > > function onTimeServerAnswer(answer) { > > sharedTime = parseInt(answer.text); > > startToTick(); > > } > > > > The use of the parameter "ts" in the query string of the request is > needed > > in order to disable the cache of makeRequest(). You can use a random > number > > just the same. > > > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:38 AM, qMax <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> [sorry for fingeroughness] > >> > >> i'ts quite reasonable to make installer gadget instance to alarm > >> robot, > >> in hope that installer/moderator will not close the wave or > >> disconnected beforehand. > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > >> "Google Wave API" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> [email protected]<google-wave-api%[email protected]> > . > >> For more options, visit this group at > >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-wave-api?hl=en. > >> > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Google Wave API" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<google-wave-api%[email protected]> > . > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/google-wave-api?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Wave API" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-wave-api%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-wave-api?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Wave API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-wave-api?hl=en.
