Comments on: What Time Is It Where You Are?

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By: Michael Martin

Michael Martin — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:17:10 +0000

I don’t actually think it would be too hard at all. It would have to be Javascript (JS works on the client’s side, whereas PHP is server side), but I think it would be fairly simple.

The problem is that it would be a little slower loading, and even if things are right by their time, you still have to find a way to tell the person that it’s in their time (Would you add in their timezone? Or actually say “Your Time”?)

By: Forrest

Forrest — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:36:26 +0000

How difficult do you suppose it might be to get the user’s time zone in jscript? Or PHP, for that matter? Are there free geo-coding services for IP addresses?

By: Michael Martin

Michael Martin — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:13:59 +0000

Glad you like the idea. :)

By: River Plate

River Plate — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 01:01:35 +0000

Great idea… because i always have that kind of problems because i live in Argentina and i do allways read other lenguage-written blogs…

:D
bye ;)

By: Michael Martin

Michael Martin — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:09:25 +0000

Fair enough. WordPress isn’t bad when you get used to it. I’ll write up a tutorial for WP category highlighting someday I guess. :)

By: Forrest

Forrest — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:22:01 +0000

You’re right; it would be faster ( for the client ) to use PHP instead of jscript to figure out what categories are being used and highlight them. My PHP is intermediary, though, and seeing WordPress as a complicated house of cards built from PHP, I wasn’t really sure how to go about it.

On the bright side, though, the jscript is using CSS; if it decides it found a match, it sets a class instead of going into the styles.

By: Michael Martin

Michael Martin — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:06:40 +0000

Forrest – I think that there is some value as well, and considering how inconspicuous the time is, I think it’s worth it.

I suppose it also depends on the type of blog though, and how frequently it gets comments. :)

As for the navigation; congrats! You can do that with a little PHP and CSS though. It could be even faster? :) (Though it couldn’t do the search thing!)

By: Forrest

Forrest — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:21:56 +0000

I had never stopped to consider this … I do list the time each comment was left, but that’s in Pacific Standard Time.

Given the options presented above, javascript makes the most sense to me. I’m already using a bit of it, even along with dreaded cookies, to let the user expand and collapse sections of my navigation. I just recently finished something I’m proud of, that looks at which categories a post ( or all the posts on a page, eg in a search ) is filed under, and lights them up in the navigation. One more script to adjust to local time … which is really the most convenient option to the reader … isn’t a big deal.

Some of the comments are making me stop to consider removing the time all together, but there does seem to be some value in knowing whether it’s been two minutes or twelve hours since the comment you might be replying to was written. Not a lot of value, but some…