Well, that is even more interesting! You are correct of course, I had not noticed. I use a commercial ISP and I will open a service ticket.
I developed the original format of the web site (including the little bit of Javascript) on a local Linux box a number of moons ago and transfered it to a commercial ISP that shall remain nameless. At the time, that was working (maybe the only thing that was working with that ISP...) When I got tired of that ISP and switched to my current ISP (Globat) 3 or 4 years ago, I do not remember checking the time stamps. My fault :-( I do not know how long it's been like that. Thanks for pointing that out. Didier KO4BB PS: just for grins, I copied the Clock/index.html page to my cox.net webspace (which I do not normally use) and it returns the right date, so the Javascript at least is still OK. http://members.cox.net/didier/ Mike S wrote: > At 07:22 PM 5/8/2007, Didier Juges wrote... > >> The page uses Javascript to instruct the browser to fetch the document >> >> updated time stamp. It seems like your browser does not handle >> Javascript the way it's intended. The way it's supposed to work: the >> Javascript instructs the browser to fetch the document's time stamp >> and >> render it on the page. The browser is either ignoring the request and >> putting some default value, or it does not fetch it properly and fails >> >> to convert the date to a proper text string. >> > > Actually, it appears to be a misconfiguration of your web site. It is > not returning Last-Modified: to an HTTP/1.1 request. Both a local site > and a different remote site I tested work fine. > > On your site, Opera 9.2 always returns January 1, 1970 GMT. IE7 and > Firefox 2.0 always return the current time (the timestamp will change > each time the page is reloaded). IE/Firefox are simply using the Date: > response because the Last-Modified: response is missing. > > A manual HTTP get from your site: > > >> hamburg:/tmp# telnet www.ko4bb.com 80 >> Trying 203.22.204.117... >> Connected to ko4bb.com. >> Escape character is '^]'. >> GET /ham_radio/Clock/ HTTP/1.1 >> Host: www.ko4bb.com >> >> HTTP/1.1 200 OK >> Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 00:47:29 GMT >> Server: Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) FrontPage/5.0.2.2623 >> Vary: Host >> Connection: close >> Transfer-Encoding: chunked >> Content-Type: text/html >> >> 9cc >> <HTML> >> ... >> > > The Javascript works fine on a local web site. Manually doing an HTTP > get returns: > >> HTTP/1.1 200 OK >> Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 00:36:40 GMT >> Server: Apache/1.3.34 (Debian) PHP/4.4.4-8+etch2 mod_ssl/2.8.25 >> OpenSSL/0.9.8c >> Last-Modified: Wed, 09 May 2007 00:27:51 GMT >> ETag: "1a5846-611-46411587" >> Accept-Ranges: bytes >> Content-Length: 1553 >> Connection: close >> Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 >> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> >> <HTML>... >> > > Also, a manual get from http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/last-mod.htm : > > >> hamburg:/tmp# telnet www.merlyn.demon.co.uk 80 >> Trying 194.159.245.16... >> Connected to service.homepages.demon.net. >> Escape character is '^]'. >> GET /last-mod.htm HTTP/1.1 >> Host: www.merlyn.demon.co.uk >> >> HTTP/1.0 200 OK >> Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 00:56:01 GMT >> Server: thttpd/1.00.disbu >> Content-type: text/html >> Content-length: 6693 >> Last-modified: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 20:00:00 GMT >> ... >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
