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

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On 11/1/2014 4:31 AM, the troll Thomas 'Pointed Head' Lahn wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> 
>> On 10/31/2014 12:33 AM, the troll Thomas 'Pointed Head' Lahn wrote:
>>> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>>>> […] Thomas […] Lahn wrote:
>>>>> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>>>>>> […] Thomas […] 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.
>>>>
>>>> And just how is he supposed to get the timezone from your answer?
>>>
>>> Those who can read and have not closed their mind have surmised by now
>>> that instead of saving the timezone *as provided by the user* in a cookie
>>> *as you proposed*, it could be saved in Local Storage or in a server-side
>>> session instead, whereas, with PHP at least, the session data could be
>>> held in a database.
>>
>> Which still doesn't answer the question.  How does it get the timezone
>> from the user?  Does the user have to answer a question (another added
>> hurdle for the user to jump through)?
> 
> See the markings above.  It was *your* idea, so *you* must answer that 
> question.
> 

I answered the question in my first response.  But YOU never answered it
in YOUR response.  And you won't, because you can't - as usual, you have
no idea what you are talking about.

So once again you show your head is so far up your arse that you're in
danger of puncturing your colon with the point.  I really pity any
potential client suckered enough to hire you.

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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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