JavaScript Time Zone Conversion with Walltime

http://engineering.sproutsocial.com/2013/02/javascript-time-zone-conversion-with-walltime/

by Jacob4u2 • 13 years ago

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dfc4• 13 years ago

Could not embed GitHub Gist 4091298: API Rate Limit Exceeded for 198.61.245.60

A good example of why using gist for your corporate blog may not be such a good idea. Right when you are getting a lot of attention your post becomes a lot less useful.

Its too bad because I was interested to read the article

ComputerGuru• 13 years ago

I don't understand. The IP address should be yours and not his servers, as gists are client-side embeds, no?

dfc4• 13 years ago

That is not my IP

stantonk• 13 years ago

Good example of why Github should be using memcached for gists, IMHO :-\

aaronrankin• 13 years ago

Visit the Github directly https://github.com/sproutsocial/walltime-js.

dfc4• 13 years ago

You signed up on HN to give the worst company response ever in a HN thread? Is "visit the github" a new brocode meme?

Jacob4u24• 13 years ago

Interesting... never seen gist's fall on their face before like that. Here is a direct link if you are still interested: https://gist.github.com/jgable/4091298

joshfraser2• 13 years ago

This post is dated, but describes some of the challenges with detecting timezones using JavaScript:

http://www.onlineaspect.com/2007/06/08/auto-detect-a-time-zo...

My code has since been adapted and lives on as jstz.min.js. This is the best library I know for handling this sort of stuff: https://bitbucket.org/pellepim/jstimezonedetect

Jacob4u24• 13 years ago

That's an interesting post, and an equally interesting library. However, Walltime is more concerned with the displaying of dates than the detection of timezones.

The example I give from the post explains it like this "... if I’m a user in Australia, and I want to post something at 3:00 AM Chicago time, where the majority of my followers are, how do I calculate that accurately with JavaScript and send it up to the server?". Or, if I'm a user in Australia, but I want to display all my dates on the site like I'm a user in Chicago, how would I do that?

Take a look at the github page description for more info about the type of problems it can help with: http://sproutsocial.github.com/walltime-js/

joshfraser2• 13 years ago

Ah, skimmed too fast. Thanks for the clarification. I just happened to notice that some of the DST detection logic seemed similar.

geedew• 13 years ago

+1 for being a quality software solution.

JavaScript Time Zone Conversion with Walltime

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