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Re: Time.is

#21
post #5

Shows incorrect time for Chile. DST isn't until April 28th. http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/chile-longer-dst-2012.h...

It means that they didn't apply the latest tzdata2012a or b update released the first week of March which contained the America/Santiago zone change.

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#23
OP, what does this line do?

    if (wn == 1) pwn = '1-ին շաբաթ';
It looked like something related to week number; looks interesting.

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#24
post #6

Exactly what I needed. For the last few weeks, I've been trying to increase my productivity by getting rid of time tracking. So I decided to hide my computer's clock. Sometimes, like when I have an appointment, I still need to check what time it is. Googling "time" doesn't always work (I don't know why exactly). So I bookmarked this site [1] but the information density is so high that I need to scan the page in order…

What OS do you use? I usually just type 'date' on the terminal.

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#26
Simple, but awesome. About two years ago I had the idea (but never implemented) to try and re-make various since use web tools and calculators using modern web technology. Things like interest/mortgage calculators, voltage drop calculators, difference between two dates, etc.

So many of them like Time.gov rely on stuff like Flash or Java, or 1998 style Javascript, which I don't really dig. Definitely a nice little hole there for making something cool.

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#27
post #23

OP, what does this line do? if (wn == 1) pwn = '1-ին շաբաթ'; It looked like something related to week number; looks interesting.

Google Translate says it's Armenian and means "1st week"

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#28
The handling of internationalization is surprisingly good. Texts, including town names, are almost all shown in the preferred language, and the size variations introduced by the translations are well handled.

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#29
post #14

I like Time.gov, personally; it was the first site I ever found around this concept and so it has a soft spot. I keep finding all my physical atomic clock synced clocks (yes, I have more than one, they are cheap these days) disagreeing, sometimes by 2 seconds or more, which makes me laugh (great ideas ruined by poor implementation). I find many of the web sites (listed in comments or the original post) to also differ…

MY understanding of the issue confirms that you would basically need a js implementation of ntp in order for any of this to work.

That's why I laughed when Time.is tried to tell me that my clock was off by 1.8 seconds. Barring the sentence above, it just has no way of determining that.

Re: Time.is

#30
post #5

Shows incorrect time for Chile. DST isn't until April 28th. http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/chile-longer-dst-2012.h...

It means that they didn't apply the latest tzdata2012a or b update released the first week of March which contained the America/Santiago zone change.

Time is a surprisingly difficult subject to get right.
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