RE: [backstage] Re: New BBC customisable homepage

2008-01-02 Thread Christopher Woods
> I refer the honourable gentleman to > http://james.cridland.net/code/clock.html - which should be > accurate within a second or so. Oooh, aaah... Most useful! *steals* *adds to codebank* *attributes credit to original author* (I play nice ;) - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion gr

Re: [backstage] Re: New BBC customisable homepage

2008-01-01 Thread James Cridland
On Dec 21, 2007 3:17 AM, Frank Wales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/21/2007 01:37 AM, Christopher Woods wrote: > > Static content can be cached and distributed to > > local nodes by ISPs and the BBC itself, but realtime NTP queries will really > > kill a box and suck up a ton of bandwidth. > >

Re: [backstage] Re: New BBC customisable homepage

2007-12-21 Thread frankie roberto
> And by the way, I do agree with the sentiment that if you put a ticking clock > on a BBC page, the time it shows ought to be within an egg-boiling interval > of dear old Green Witch. Mean time, I also appreciate that this is a > nostalgic > touch, but I don't lose sight of the meaning of a BBC

Re: [backstage] Re: New BBC customisable homepage

2007-12-20 Thread Frank Wales
On 12/21/2007 01:37 AM, Christopher Woods wrote: > Static content can be cached and distributed to > local nodes by ISPs and the BBC itself, but realtime NTP queries will really > kill a box and suck up a ton of bandwidth. But NTP would be a mad way to get a clock on a web page roughly right. Web

RE: [backstage] Re: New BBC customisable homepage

2007-12-20 Thread Christopher Woods
This discussion is beginning to evoke scenes from The Holy Grail ("... It's only a model") - It's a beta design! The clock'll probably get taken off when the site goes live as the main frontpage, the amount of times that script'd be hammering an NTP server, they'd either have to set their own one u

[backstage] Re: New BBC customisable homepage

2007-12-20 Thread Drew [Andrew White]
Sorry guys - my point was misinterpreted! ->Big Ben is (c) ITN, Auntie only uses its sound on R4 at 6pm and 10pm I wasn't suggesting anywhere the use of a Big Ben image for the site or talking about chimes heard on radio... My point was that the famous clock tower (commonly known as Big Ben e