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Re: Countdown timer off?
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2014 9:10 am
by Kilsin
Yeah mine has been showing 00 00 00 00 for hours now, since I first posted, strange! lol
It's weird being in the future sometimes!
Re: Countdown timer off?
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2014 9:33 am
by John Adams
Heh yes, I have it set for local time to the web server. For some reason, I thought it translated to your local times - guess not.
This was just an estimate based off Kilsin's report.
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year:2014,
month:7,
day:31,
hour: 18,
minute: 00,
rangeHi: "days",
Re: Countdown timer off?
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2014 9:35 am
by snom
it shouldn't need to translate, that is the problem. 9 hours for you should still be 9 hours for me.
Re: Countdown timer off?
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2014 10:05 am
by John Adams
Yeah but I am not in EST
Sorry guys, the timer was meant to be a fun little thing that I could not get timezone offsets to work (due to phpBB themes and just not enough time). I need a longer countdown time... not enough time to do anything anymore.
I added the PDT, though it kinda sucks the fun out of counting down for those not in the PDT
Re: Countdown timer off?
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2014 10:07 am
by snom
[quote="John Adams"]Yeah but I am not in EST
Sorry guys, the timer was meant to be a fun little thing that I could not get timezone offsets to work (due to phpBB themes and just not enough time). I need a longer countdown time... not enough time to do anything anymore.
I added the PDT, though it kinda sucks the fun out of counting down for those not in the PDT [/quote]
heh, 8 hours from now is 8 hours from now, regardless of the timezone. The counter should show the same for everyone since it is a "number of hours till" counter. (Or am I failing math again?)
Re: Countdown timer off?
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2014 10:14 am
by Cyrcle
[quote="snom"][quote="John Adams"]Yeah but I am not in EST
Sorry guys, the timer was meant to be a fun little thing that I could not get timezone offsets to work (due to phpBB themes and just not enough time). I need a longer countdown time... not enough time to do anything anymore.
I added the PDT, though it kinda sucks the fun out of counting down for those not in the PDT [/quote]
heh, 8 hours from now is 8 hours from now, regardless of the timezone. The counter should show the same for everyone since it is a "number of hours till" counter. (Or am I failing math again?)[/quote]
No, you're right.
For some reason the timer is setting the sunset time to 6:00PM in whatever time zone you are in, not a flat 6:00PM PDT. The countdown should be static for everyone.
Also, now that you added PDT, it reads as 4 hours 45 minutes left til sunset (PDT).
Re: Countdown timer off?
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2014 10:18 am
by John Adams
Heh I cannot win this battle. Too many other things to do today
Re: Countdown timer off?
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2014 10:26 am
by snom
[quote="John Adams"]Heh I cannot win this battle. Too many other things to do today [/quote]
No worries! Get back to work :crackwhip: