corporate win--their requirements

[PFC Steenhagen, Jacob]

Perhaps "Use JavaScript to detect whenever I login" (presumably when you 
change time zones you also change IP's and therefore would be forced to 
login again) could be one of the time zone options... a bit more work 
than not having it, but less hassle then getting JS that will work on 
every browser w/out being slower.  Granted, you'd then be stuck on 
whatever the server's default is until you logged in, but that's the 
case for anything that doesn't include JavaScript on every page.

Gervase Markham wrote:

>>> Maybe (probably) I'm missing something here. If you can provide some 
>>> JS that turns 1000001234 (server side secs-since-Jan-1970 value) to 
>>> a client-side 2002-03-03 11:43 , I'll be pleased and impressed.
>>
>>
>> var d = new Date(1017859380000);
>> var mar32k2 = d.getFullYear() + "-" + d.getMonth() + "-" + d.getDay();
>
>
> Not necessarily, if the server is already on a different day from the 
> client. Remember, d is an object representing a server time.
>
> Also, getMonth requires 1 adding to it, and zero-padding, and you mean 
> getDate(), not getDay(), and that needs zero-padding, too.
>
>> var elevenFortyThree = d.toLocaleTimeString(); // 11:43:00 AM
>
>
> toLocaleTimeString is JS 1.5, available on IE 5.5 and Netscape 6 and 
> above only.
>
> Does toLocaleTimeString automatically add on the relevant delta for 
> the user's time zone compared to GMT? That would be wrong anyway, 
> because we need to modify the date based on the time zone difference 
> between the _server_ and the client, because dates are going to 
> continue to be stored on the server in the server's time zone. 
> (Converting to GMT would be a backwards-compatibility nightmare, and 
> more complicated for admins.)
>
> (Also, there's the problems I raised about not having JS, which you 
> could comment on at the bottom of this mail for simplicity, if you like.)
>
> Gerv
>
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