Getting user's time from web revlet?

[Michael Kann]

Tim,

Let's say Mary is in front of her computer in Tokyo. Do you want her to be able to see her local date/time appear on the web page in front of her? Or do you want that web page to send the Tokyo date/time back to the server in Houston so it can be logged there?

If you want to send the data back to Houston then you have two choices. Either she can click on a link in her page to send a POST request back to Houston, or it can be done sneakily with AJAX, behind the scenes. Both of those require Javascript. We can do some dumpster diving on the javascript websites and find something.



--- On Tue, 1/19/10, Tim Selander <selander at tkf.att.ne.jp> wrote:

> From: Tim Selander <selander at tkf.att.ne.jp>
> Subject: Re: Getting user's time from web revlet?
> To: "How to use Revolution" <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
> Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 8:29 AM
> Thanks for clearing up the
> .irev/revlet confusion in my head.
> 
> I've read through the thread a couple times... and it seems
> you 
> CANNOT get the user/browser's date and time through
> RevServer 
> scripts. Correct?
> 
> Anyone have a javascript snippet they like to use to get
> the 
> user's date and time? thanks.
> 
> Tim Selander
> Tokyo, Japan
> 
> Andre Garzia wrote:
> > Tim,
> > 
> > .irev files are not revlets. revlets are the plugin
> based files to be run in
> > a browser thru the plugin, they have the .revlet
> sufix. irev files are text
> > file scripts to be run by the RevServer engine. This
> is just so that you
> > don't mix them two when you search the archives or
> documentation, for it
> > would yield bad search results
> > 
> > As for getting the clients time using RevServer files
> check out the variable
> > $_SERVER["Date"], it will contain a timestamp from the
> browser perspective.
> > Hope this helps.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > andre
> > 
> > 2010/1/18 Tim Selander <selander at tkf.att.ne.jp>
> > 
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I've found some ways using javascript, but does
> anyone know if
> >> on-rev revlets (.irev files) have a way of getting
> the user's
> >> date and time from their browser/PC?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Tim Selander
> >> Tokyo, Japan
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