> 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 ;)
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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.
>
>
> 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
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
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
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
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