Ok, thanks for the tip.

Benjamin
http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Bnleez

On May 4, 4:47 pm, Jim Tittsler <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 09:10, Ben <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Thanks for your response, Jim.  I changed all the variants to
> > {{LOCAL*}} and checked my local time preferences in both the WE and
> > Wikimedia pages (-06:00), CST, but for some reason, the variant is
> > still picking up the server time and not the local time.  I flushed
> > the cache several times in my browser, and will continue to check
> > later on to see if time changes.  Anything else I´m missing?
>
> > Here's the template I´m using to include the date and time:
> >http://www.wikieducator.org/Template:Ben_nav_page
>
> It is not practical for you to hard code 'CST' into your template
> unless you are the only one that sees the template (by injecting it
> into some of your pages with custom Javascript for example), because
> the CURRENTTIME will differ for each user depending upon how they have
> specified their offset from UTC on their Special:Preferences page.
>
> LOCALTIME returns the server time, which is not terribly helpful in an
> international project, and even less so here since it follows the
> German daylight savings rules.
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