Adding .5 hours to ’Time offset’
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Topic: Adding .5 hours to ’Time offset’
Posted By: Fx-1
Subject: Adding .5 hours to ’Time offset’
Date Posted: 27 May 2004 at 6:42am
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Hi all, This is a question regarding the "Time offset from forum time" user setting. I'm just wondering why I can't enter +13.5 hours as I can only enter +13, which puts the forum 30 minutes behind for the times it displays. Any help is appreciated, Craig |
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Posted By: Chris7
Date Posted: 27 May 2004 at 3:05pm
| Er aren't all times offset by a whole number of hours. It sounds to me like your server clock has the wrong time |
Posted By: Fx-1
Date Posted: 28 May 2004 at 3:46am
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I don't think the server time is wrong. It's hosted on Brinkster. What about Australian Central Standard Time? It's UTC+0930 Thanks, |
Posted By: Sxar
Date Posted: 28 May 2004 at 9:18am
| Fx-1 Makes a good point Borg. Woud it be possible to add in the feature in the next version? |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 28 May 2004 at 9:22am
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It was looked into last year, but due to compatibility problems it couldn't be added.
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Posted By: Spaceman Spiff
Date Posted: 28 May 2004 at 12:40pm
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No. Newfoundland, for example, is ahead of Eastern time by 1.5 hours. It might be the only one. |
Chris7 wrote:Posted By: thekiwi
Date Posted: 28 May 2004 at 3:14pm
We looked at this as well (must be a 'down under thing' :-) ) ... but: * THe datatype in the database is smallint * THe VbScript used to format the field input has CInt Thus everywhere the offset is "used" is an integer ... ad therefore we found there were bits and pieces of code everywhere which stopped it from being a decimal ------------- Cheers TheKiwi http://www.infobahn.co.nz - Internet Infobahn - website design and hosting |
Posted By: Fx-1
Date Posted: 29 May 2004 at 6:23am
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thanks for the explanation thekiwi. Maybe something to think of when you release 8.0 |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 30 May 2004 at 7:57am
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Another problem is with using decimal numbers, in some locales a dot
(.) is used as the seporator, in other locales a comma is used (,). This and other problems ment that it could not be implemented. I remember spending the best part of a week trying to come up with a implement a solution to this but found that it wasn't working. I think it's around 3 or 4 time zones (can't remember off-hand as it was a year ago I researched into this) in the world that use a half hour time off-sets from GMT, I also looked at the populations of these places and found it to be very small indeed and becuase of this and the problems implementing the solution I decided to give up. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |