Getting user's time from web revlet?

Pierre Sahores psahores at free.fr
Thu Jan 21 14:21:10 EST 2010


Jim,

in this case, Sarah's way wins and David Beck's CallPHP 1.5 lib sould  
be usable too (http://www.rotundasoftware.com/rev/)

Le 21 janv. 10 à 03:04, Sarah Reichelt a écrit :

> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Tim Selander  
> <selander at tkf.att.ne.jp> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> As far as I know, the JavaScript Date object gives the browser's  
> date & time.
> Here is a routine I have to showing a time stamp:
>
> function showTimeStamp() {
> 	  // show the current date & time in the divider bar
> 		var date = new Date();
> 		var m = date.getMinutes();
> 		var s = date.getSeconds();
> 		// add a zero in front of numbers < 10
> 		if (m < 10) { m = "0" + m; }
> 		if (s < 10) { s = "0" + s; }
>
> 		// format into "d/m/yyyy        h:mm:ss"
> 		var currentDate = 	date.getDate() + "/" +
> 						(date.getMonth() + 1) + "/" +
> 						date.getFullYear() + "        " +
> 						date.getHours() + ":" + m + ":" + s;
>
> 		$('#timestamp').text("Last step: " + currentDate);
> }
>
>
> The last line uses jQuery to display the time stamp in the tag with
> the id "timestamp", but you can also use straight JavaScript:
> 		document.getElementById("timestamp").innerHTML = currentDate;
>
> Note that I have the date formatted in the English/Australian style
> (d/m/y), so swap the segments around if you want American dates.
>
> HTH,
> Sarah
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Le 21 janv. 10 à 18:28, Jim Ault a écrit :

>
> On Jan 21, 2010, at 9:08 AM, Pierre Sahores wrote:
>
>> Hi Andre and All,
>>
>> Google Analytics use js+cookies to handle all the user's local  
>> dates tasks. Seems to meen that revServer is not the onest server- 
>> side engine to passtrough some env_vars ;-)
>>
>
> True, but that again is using cookies in the traditional way, as  
> long as the user allows cookies.  The web page author programs using  
> some code that reads/writes cookies (data to the user hard drive),  
> thus the server tries to use cookies, and the user can set limits or  
> disallow their use.  Many corporations disallow.
>
> Jim Ault
> Las Vegas
>
>>
>> Le 21 janv. 10 à 17:14, Andre Garzia a écrit :
>>
>>> I think the important part of this thread is that the browser does  
>>> send time
>>> information in the form of an HTTP Date header which RevServer  
>>> simply
>>> ignores. I want all the headers available, if we don't have all  
>>> the headers
>>> then we'll loose some information such as ETag, if-modified-since  
>>> and custom
>>> headers sent by some applications. It will me impossible to  
>>> implement some
>>> features because the headers are not available
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Robert Brenstein <rjb at robe
>
>
>
>
>
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