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WWDC 2006 Countdown Widget
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Hold on, why do you need differing time zones anyway - it doesn't matter where in the world you are, the keynote will still be happening at the same time....??? 
hob said:Hold on, why do you need differing time zones anyway - it doesn't matter where in the world you are, the keynote will still be happening at the same time....???
The widget problably uses the time from the computer as current time, which is in the timezone of the computer, while the target date/time is in another one.
D3LM3L said:
It's worth remembering that UK time is currently BST, which it GMT+1...
lilstewart - I'm not sure how much work you're making for yourself here - potentially 24 (or more?) different versions of the same application.
I've never made an application is OS X, and barely scratched the surface in Windows (back in my A-Level days), but it can't be THAT hard to work out what the system time is, and also what timezone that pertains to?
Perhaps, the easiest thing to do would be to have a drop-down menu on the back of the widget so users can select which timezone they are in...?
Trust me, I've tried and I just don't know how.hob said:
And it's not that big of a deal, since it's made I can just change it quickly and export the widget and zip it.
lilstewart said:Trust me, I've tried and I just don't know how.
And it's not that big of a deal, since it's made I can just change it quickly and export the widget and zip it.
Ah that's a shame - all compliments to you for making such a good widget, but it makes me want to learn how to make them so I could add the menu to the back of it!! (also, I've been meaning to for a while)...
Give me 20 days
lilstewart said:Trust me, I've tried and I just don't know how.
And it's not that big of a deal, since it's made I can just change it quickly and export the widget and zip it.
lilstewart, is it okay if I look into your widget and try to get it to correctly handle the "time-zone" issue? I'm pretty sure there's a way via Date.UTC()
wmmk said:
Stewart, in your wwdccountdown.html, just change the one-line in your apple-initValues div to be:
Code:
<div id="apple-init-countdownTarget">Mon Aug 07 2006 10:00:00 GMT-0700</div>You'll only need one version of the widget now and it will (or should; fingers crossed) handle everybody's local time. Enjoy!
