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Re: Time.is

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Post by djsla »

mrud wrote: post #8

I really like http://worldtimebuddy.com/ as it allows you to see time zone differences without the need to calculate it yourself.

It does not do clock sync/accuracy determination. Time.is is rather unique that way. However, I'm skeptical over the importance of that feature.

disclosure: worldtimebuddy founder.

Re: Time.is

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Post by jarek »

MattRogish wrote: post #64

Cool site! QR code on the "About" page is a head-scratcher, though.. http://time.is/about

The idea is you can scan it with your phone and not have to type the URL in. Not sure how many people actually do that though.

Re: Time.is

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Post by Aramgutang »

libria wrote: 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.

In a fuller context:

    if(p_wn=='hy'){if(wn==1)pwn='1-ին շաբաթ';else pwn=wn+'-րդ շաբաթ'}
So if the locale is "hy" (Armenian), and the week number is one, set the string to "1st week", else set the string to "#th week" (both in Armenian).

Unlike English, which also has exceptions for "2nd" and "3rd", Armenian only uses a different suffix for "1st".

Re: Time.is

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Post by iag »

I am seeing roughly +/- 0.1s accuracy range on my browser. Can someone please enlighten me on why we cannot reduce this further? I assume this page has <100ms response time, can't they get to a better accuracy range?

Re: Time.is

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Post by sbierwagen »

bbx wrote: post #52
icebraining wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Mainly Win 7. Otherwise Mac OS X. Sometimes Win XP, and very rarely Ubuntu. But I almost never have a terminal open (and don't have a shortcut for that either) whereas Firefox almost always is. So I'm just 1 click away rather than 4 characters away. You taught me something though (I highly prefer typing on a keyboard than using a mouse or, worse, a touchpad) and I wish I had to spend more time in a terminal.

Why not? I usually have a terminal open for irc / bc -l / git / checking the headers of pages with curl -I, pinging things, WHOIS lookups, wgetting files, etc etc etc.

Re: Time.is

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Post by MattRogish »

jarek wrote: post #82
MattRogish wrote: post #64

Cool site! QR code on the "About" page is a head-scratcher, though.. http://time.is/about

The idea is you can scan it with your phone and not have to type the URL in. Not sure how many people actually do that though.

A) If you're viewing on your phone, it's mobile optimized B) If you're viewing it on your desktop, why would you want to go to your phone? C) Time.is has to be the easiest URL to enter by hand in a device browser. :D

Re: Time.is

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Post by apaprocki »

dfc wrote: post #68
troels wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The rotation of Earth is actually not as stable a thing as one might expect. See for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second

NIST recently published the new ntp.leap file and it looks like we will have one this July... 3550089600 35 # 1 Jul 2012 [1]

You also need to make sure your IANA tzdata is updated to account for this. I think this leap second was first added in tzdata2012a, but I'd have to check:

ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/data/leapseconds

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