Derick Rethans wrote:
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
LC>>> UTC. Do you have your watch in UTC and your wall clock in your home in
LC>>> UTC?
LC>>
LC>>ACTUALLY - all the server clocks are set to GMT - that way I know who ever
LC>>enters data, the timestamp is always correct, what ever their local time ;)
I am starting to get an impression that you reply to me without reading
what I wrote. Once more: when I need to display current time for this
machine, I don't need UTC.
But you do need UTC somewhere, as *all* date code (OS, applications)
use UTC timestamps to calculate the current time.
And I have finally found the hole in what *I* am trying to do - as it
was hidden in someone else's code ;)
the javascript getTimezoneOffset() only gives the current time offset
from UTC and requests for daylight saving information with it go back to
at least 2001 :(
So I will have to continue with asking a user where they are when they
log in ;)
Stanislav - DISPLAYING local time only applies to the local site - when
you are logging into an Australian machine the local time of that
machine is not a lot of use. But *IF* I want to compare - say - bid
times between an American and an Australian machine, then the ONLY time
that can be used is UTC ?
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Lester Caine
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