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Solution to the timezone problem

Hixie has a brilliant solution to the time zone problem in the form of a clever piece of XBL by Nicolás Lichtmier. The small script can be bound to an element containing a date in UTC and will quietly replace it with the time in the user’s current timezone using Mozilla’s built in UTC handling functions. Naturally it only works in Mozilla, but I imagine the script could be emulated using Internet Explorer behaviors.

Posted 7th September 2002 at 9:32 pm

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Your pingback client is broken (which is why this entry didn't result in a pingback on my blog). Your blog said the link was:

http:/ln.hixie.ch/?start=1031384833

...but it's not, it is missing the &count=1 bit at the end. My blog requires complete permalinks to acknowledge the ping. In case you don't log all failed responses, here's the response that my blog sent back:

The given URI (http:/ln.hixie.ch/?start=1031384833) is not the permalink of a blog entry on this site.

Ian Hickson - 7th September 2002 20:58 - #
I tried both - not sure why it didn't work for either but I'll have another go now.
Simon - 7th September 2002 21:08 - #
heh, as per our e-mail discussion, your URI is also missing a slash at the beginning. Do you make these URIs up by hand or something? Just copy and paste the permalinks! ;-)
Ian Hickson - 7th September 2002 23:21 - #
Well... There's no need of either XBL or behaviours. It can be just done in an onload handler finding all the spans with className containing "date" (or "stamp"). XBL is just a bit cleaner (and it should be a bit faster I think).
NicolÃ¡s - 9th September 2002 03:53 - #

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