Re^2: Display Specific Time on Any PC.

Thanks kennethk,

I may be over simplifying the solution to this problem, but the examples could be anywhere. Server in Japan, resource in Hawaii, PC in Rome. What I currently believe is the server in Japan must send the seconds from the epoch for the resource in Hawaii to the PC in milliseconds.

Does that make sense?

UPDATE: My assumption is wrong! I need to include the PC time in the algorithm.

Regards...Ed

"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin

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Re^3: Display Specific Time on Any PC. by kennethk (Abbot) on Mar 24, 2014 at 17:37 UTC
I'm having trouble following your spec. You have two ideas here: A timestamp in epoch A mapping to the local time Some kind of interrogation has to occur in order to reveal what any given machine believes the answer to any question is. It seems like it should be as simple as having your server parrot a timestamp from your resource in Hawaii to the PC in Rome, and then you could have Rome convert that in JavaScript for display. Alternatively, you could interrogate the PC in Rome for a time zone, and format on the server. I'm not tracking where the issue is for you in implementing this. #11929 First ask yourself `How would I do this without a computer?' Then have the computer do it the same way.	[reply]
Re^4: Display Specific Time on Any PC. by flexvault (Monsignor) on Mar 24, 2014 at 18:00 UTC
Only 1 idea. Show exact time at resource on a PC that is in a different time zone from the resource. "Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin	[reply]
Re^5: Display Specific Time on Any PC. by kennethk (Abbot) on Mar 24, 2014 at 21:51 UTC
`#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use DateTime; my $dt = DateTime->from_epoch( epoch => time() )->set_time_zone('Ameri +ca/Los_Angeles'); print $dt->hms(':');` [download] prints the current time in Los Angeles. `#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use DateTime; my $dt = DateTime->from_epoch( epoch => 1395697655 )->set_time_zone('E +urope/Rome'); print $dt->hms(':');` [download] prints what time it was in Rome when I wrote this code. You need two pieces of data: Time zone for output Time stamp to output and then you can output whatever time any computer thought it was, translated into local time. If this is not what you need, then I'm misunderstanding your spec. Please give specific data for what you expect to see. #11929 First ask yourself `How would I do this without a computer?' Then have the computer do it the same way.	[reply] [d/l] [select]