Time: Greenwich

[Neanderthal_Man]

Hi,

how do you set up time to show Greenwich current time?

thanks


yes, i do know how to show the visitor's current time...

[telekinesis]

There is not a way that I know of to do that, you can always have a clock show but it will only show Greenwich time if the user is connecting from a Greenwich timezone!

[lostinbeta]

I wrote a tutorial on making clocks in Flash MX (the tutorial works for Flash 5 also). It reads the time off of the viewers computer, so no matter where you are at, it will display the time in that area.

Clock Tutorial (http://www.8ballcreations.com/lostinbeta/experimental/clocktutorial.html)

There is the link to the tutorial if you want to check it out.

[Neanderthal_Man]

what if you retrieve the pc's time zone? like: (GMT -06:00) Central Time(US & Canada) and calculate the differences.. is there a way to call the time zone setting through flash.. i know it will be different settings through different OS, but once one side is discovered and known to be possible, we can work the others..

?

[telekinesis]

Maybe if you have a pull down menu with a list of time zones the user can pick and then determine the time from that either adding or subtracting hours!

[lostinbeta]

I could do that, but I don't know the hourly difference in time zones. Or even where certain time zones begin and where certain time zones end.

[telekinesis]

Go to most forum user preferences and where you select your time zone it shows them all!

[lostinbeta]

Awesome, I will most certainly do that one day. Hopefully one day very very soon, when I get enough free time.