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Re: Live Clock on a website?

Posted: Sun 06 May 2012 7:27 am
by GraemeT
Ray,
My local time Aus Eastern Standard Time is 17:27, your clock shows 08:27, my UTC clock shows 07:27
so presumably you're on daylight saving time.

Re: Live Clock on a website?

Posted: Sun 06 May 2012 7:44 am
by Super-T
Showing 1 hour ahead of local NZ time. No daylight saving involved here.

Re: Live Clock on a website?

Posted: Sun 06 May 2012 8:53 am
by RayProudfoot
gemini06720 wrote:Ray, it is not showing the correct time in my browser - it is 20:40 here (local pacific daylight saving time) and the clock on the web page is displaying 04:40 AM... :(
Ray, IIRC the UK is 8 hours ahead of Pacific Time so as you're on DST and so are we that would make it correct.
Oh, did I forget to mention that I really dislike (to put it nicely) those gadgets with mouse-hover messages and links... :twisted:
I don't like it either but I suppose the price you pay for a freebie.

Re: Live Clock on a website?

Posted: Sun 06 May 2012 8:54 am
by RayProudfoot
GraemeT wrote:Ray,
My local time Aus Eastern Standard Time is 17:27, your clock shows 08:27, my UTC clock shows 07:27
so presumably you're on daylight saving time.
Graeme, Yes we are so that makes it correct, thanks. :)

Re: Live Clock on a website?

Posted: Sun 06 May 2012 8:56 am
by RayProudfoot
Super-T wrote:Showing 1 hour ahead of local NZ time. No daylight saving involved here.
Shouldn't that be 11 hours ahead? If so that's correct as the UK is on GMT+1 until October.

Re: Live Clock on a website?

Posted: Sun 06 May 2012 9:02 am
by duke
I don't like it either but I suppose the price you pay for a freebie.
As mentioned by Ray earlier, take a look at mine and the various options. No annoying pop ups and it's a freebie.

And, an earlier helpful quote from Steve to check your clock ;) .
I'm not outside the UK, but my PC doesn't know that, so I pretended to be in Melbourne and Los Angeles, and it worked fine.
Duke

Re: Live Clock on a website?

Posted: Sun 06 May 2012 9:23 am
by RayProudfoot
duke wrote:As mentioned by Ray earlier, take a look at mine and the various options. No annoying pop ups and it's a freebie.

And, an earlier helpful quote from Steve to check your clock ;) .

Duke
Duke, I read through this thread and had a look at the various clocks but preferred the one I ultimately chose albeit with the popup message. Of course there's no need to hover over it to see the time. ;)

Steve's tip is handy should I decide to try others.

Re: Live Clock on a website?

Posted: Sun 13 May 2012 3:06 pm
by RayProudfoot
After a week I decided I didn't like the analogue clock and started another search. What I now have looks much better. The only downside is you can't customise which cities are shown. Still, much beter than before and no annoying popup when you hover. :D

Re: Live Clock on a website?

Posted: Mon 14 May 2012 2:46 am
by gemini06720
Nicer, indeed Ray.

But, I have to 'rain on your parade' matter of writing... :mrgreen: ...the new line of code for the clocks produces a lots of easily correctable errors (and warning) when your home page is sent to the W3C Markup Validation Service... ;)

The main problem in the clock line (and the Weather Underground line) is the use of the 'not permitted' "&" symbol - it should be replaced with its equivalent "&" (which validate without problem while producing the same intended results).

There are some additional errors/warnings when HTML tags are not properly entered (too many of those so-called Web designers trying to cut corners in order to save a few keyboard clicks) such as 'width=100%" - it should be properly written as 'width="100%"' - all HTML tag values should be enclosed between single or double quote marks.

Sorry if I ruined a beautiful day... 8-)

Re: Live Clock on a website?

Posted: Mon 14 May 2012 6:04 pm
by RayProudfoot
Greetings Raymondo :D

I'm very grateful for your help. :clap: I've managed to get the number of errors down from 43 to 6. I suspect the supplied code from WU is responsible for those but I don't know if it's possible to fix it.

Pity DW can't validate as well as a free website!