Michael, All it would take is to have a page loaded and ready to display. The web server can be configured to display a page in its configuration file and not have it become active until the web server reads the new configuration. It it's noon here, then the web admin and do it manually. If he or she is in another country, he or she could set up a batch file to do it. If the admin does not know how to do either, get a real admin to do it.
Ken On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 8:38 PM Michael Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > Not really specifically a Linux thing, but you are the best group of folks > I have access to. > > Considering an online store, we have an issue of a special sale coming up > of a limited number of a product. We expect this item to be in high demand > and folks will be waiting in line to purchase. We would like to announce > the sale will start at Noon Pacific Time on the chosen date. We felt this > would give the most customers an even chance to purchase as opposed to > starting at some seemingly random time. > > First, does this seem like a logical concept? Our webmaster claims it is > not doable with our current software. He says he can only have the sale > start at midnight, but he is unable to determine what time zone that > particular midnight is, whether it is our Pacific time or whatever time > zone the host server happens to be in (which we do not actually know). He > also claims no known ecommerce software allows this and nobody who does on > line sales would do such a thing. > > I would guess it is not unlike buying tickets to a movie on line and > waiting until they go on sale to purchase and there only being a small > number available. > > As always, your wisdom and comments are appreciated. > > Michael > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
