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Re: Dealing with timestamps from different timezones - general approach for basic saving?

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Jerry Stuckle wrote:

> [abuse] Thomas 'Pointed Head' Lahn wrote:
>> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>>> 1. Ask for their timezone and save it in a cookie (an extra operation on
>>> their part)
>> Or local storage.  For privacy, in a server-side session.  Could be in a
>> database.
> 
> And how are you going to do that unless they sign in?

1. STFW for “Local Storage”.

2. Server-side (PHP) sessions set a cookie with a session ID, but the
   privacy-critical payload is stored on the server.  No sign-in necessary.
 
>>> 2. Use javascript to fetch the user's timezone and display it
>>> accordingly (off topic in a PHP newsgroup)
>> 
>> It would be the *system’s* timezone, which is why it is error-prone.
> 
> It is the user's system - not the server system.

*sigh*  I know.  Nobody but you, now, referred to the server in *that* 
regard.  The point here is, it would be not the user’s timezone, but that of 
the local computer system.  Big difference.

> Only you wouldn't know what I mean.

You know far, far less about me than you think.

>>> 3. Use a combination of #1 and #2 and set a cookie with the timezone,
>>> but it won't work on the first page they display (because the javascript
>>> doesn't run until after the page is displayed.  You would have to use
>>> javascript to reload the page.
>> Not necessarily.  And there is no javascript.
>> 
>> <http://PointedEars.de/es-matrix>
> 
> There is javascript […]

Only in the heads of wannabes who could not tell a property accessor from an 
Array initialiser, and an operator from different syntactical constructs.

-- 
PointedEars
Zend Certified PHP Engineer
Twitter: @PointedEars2
Please do not Cc: me. / Bitte keine Kopien per E-Mail.

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Dealing with timestamps from different timezones - general approach for basic saving? e.blumstengel@googlemail.com - 2014-10-28 12:42 -0700
  Re: Dealing with timestamps from different timezones - general approach for basic saving? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-10-28 16:51 -0400
    Re: Dealing with timestamps from different timezones - general approach for basic saving? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-10-30 08:14 +0100
      Re: Dealing with timestamps from different timezones - general approach for basic saving? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-10-30 10:04 -0400
        Re: Dealing with timestamps from different timezones - general approach for basic saving? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-10-30 22:38 +0100
          Re: Dealing with timestamps from different timezones - general approach for basic saving? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-10-30 18:38 -0400
            Re: Dealing with timestamps from different timezones - general approach for basic saving? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-10-31 05:33 +0100
              Re: Dealing with timestamps from different timezones - general approach for basic saving? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-10-31 09:51 -0400
                Re: Dealing with timestamps from different timezones - general approach for basic saving? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-11-01 09:31 +0100
                Re: Dealing with timestamps from different timezones - general approach for basic saving? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-11-01 09:31 -0400
                drifted into ABUSE: Re: Dealing with timestamps bill <william@TechServSys.com> - 2014-11-01 11:21 -0400
                Re: drifted into ABUSE: Re: Dealing with timestamps Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-11-01 17:04 +0100
                Re: drifted into ABUSE: Re: Dealing with timestamps Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-11-01 21:32 -0400
                Re: drifted into ABUSE: Re: Dealing with timestamps Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-11-02 09:27 +0000
  Re: Dealing with timestamps from different timezones - general approach for basic saving? Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-10-29 01:50 +0000

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