Mike Macgirvin
Diary and Other Rantings
Beyond Silicon Valley
   
Sunday, Jul 20 2008, 10:10 am
Sep 17, 2006
Time has come today

After the rant about Daylight Saving recently, I decided it was time to put my money where my mouth is and actually make this software work across multiple timezones. It is a thankless task - unless of course you're in New York and don't appreciate seeing everything in California time.

I've since gotten it more or less working and stabilized. You still may see a couple of funny dates, but now most everything will track your time zone - and it even gets Australia right (at least for 1900-2006, knock on wood). Members of the Navajo nation should use America/Denver.  Other Arizona citizens, America/Phoenix. To set your timezone, go to the My Profile page. This assumes you've got an account. Guests are stuck in Pacific Time. Once you've set the timezone - things will start to be displayed in your own time. This is important for the Events system. 

Along with this, I've now got a World Time page to let you keep track of Tulsa Time. Or Moscow Time. Whatever.  

Oh, and I also grabbed a copy of the latest CIA world factbook and put it online. Now you can get a map of Barbados without looking all over the webiverse for it.

These items were making the 'Tools' menu kinda' big so I split the menus up once again. Now there's a 'Reference' menu as well.

Oh yeah, more fun stuff ... check out a Random word in the dictionary

 

Development will probably start to slow down now. I believe I've found some paid employment to keep me busy. Details to come in due time.  

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