Remember that Lifehacker post about Seinfeld's productivity secret? I made a small site based on it.

Post by brett » Fri, Aug 24, 2007, 7:51 AM UTC

bootload wrote: post #31

euccastro wrote: post #25

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I have no idea if this is possible, but what about trying to read the timezone settings in the host computer with Javascript, rather than asking the user to set that?

"... I have no idea if this is possible, ..." Either do I but it would be just as easy to add a login, select timezone & store that, but then if you take a plane from foo to bar and your zones change you have to change it again. This is a good idea btw. And I have looked at calendar apps in the past. The big PIA is time-syncing in with where you are at the moment.

Post by ph0rque » Fri, Aug 24, 2007, 2:44 PM UTC

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Nice. Feature request: could you offer more than one chain? Chains that aren't daily (e.g. if you're in sales, it wouldn't make much sense to expect the same quota for Wednesday as for Sunday)?

Yeah. I've been thinking about how to best add more than one chain since I started. My main concern is making sure that at any time you can single click on a day with an unambiguous result (viz. it toggles color). So far I'm thinking some sort of tabbish view where you only see one chain at a time. Adding non daily chains is something to think about.

Post by palish » Fri, Aug 24, 2007, 3:57 PM UTC

brett wrote: post #13

palish wrote: post #4

Oh snap. You sneaky sneaky. We might just have to launch tonight instead of tomorrow. Well played! I really like how you've kept it drop-dead simple. Our site offers a little more social-wise, so I'm sure there will be plenty of people who prefer your application. Great design!

Thanks. And thanks for inspiring me to get it out. I look forward to seeing what you are working on.

Post by brett » Fri, Aug 24, 2007, 4:51 PM UTC

bootload wrote: post #33

brett wrote: post #32

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Okay. It should now pick up your timezone via js. Unfortunately right now you won't notice it until the second request. I could have js refresh the page when it detects that the tz needs to be set/changed, but I don't want to do that until I am totally certain it cannot end up in an infinite refresh loop.

"... The big PIA is time-syncing in with where you are at the moment ..." Though I was thinking this fails if your machine has the wrong time. "... It should now pick up your timezone via js ..." and you can use this to check against user preferences in TZ. I'll be checking the src how you do this. Difficult to find out how?

 var offset = new Date().getTimezoneOffset() / 60
 if(offset != parseInt(JSTZ_OFFSET)){
   new Ajax.Request("/jstz/" + offset);
 }

Post by bootload » Fri, Aug 24, 2007, 10:39 PM UTC

brett wrote: post #38

bootload wrote: post #33

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"... The big PIA is time-syncing in with where you are at the moment ..." Though I was thinking this fails if your machine has the wrong time. "... It should now pick up your timezone via js ..." and you can use this to check against user preferences in TZ. I'll be checking the src how you do this. Difficult to find out how?

JSTZ_OFFSET gets set by the backend from the session: var offset = new Date().getTimezoneOffset() / 60 if(offset != parseInt(JSTZ_OFFSET)){ new Ajax.Request("/jstz/" + offset); }