Re: time update from the server problem...

[Martin G. <gim...@gi...>]

Baron Paul <pau...@ya...> writes:

> Hi,
> i m new to this list.

Welcome!

> I have installed this lovely php on a server in France but I live in
> japan at the moment and I noticed that even when it s nite in japan,
> the cloud image shows the sun... I kind of understood in looking
> quickly in the archives that it was probably due to the fact that
> the choosing between the sun and the moon image was dependant on the
> time of the server on which the php was hosted...

Yes, you've found a known bug :-/ 

> I use version 2.0.0 and i was wondering if anything had been fixed
> in a CVS release...

No, this hasn't changed, but I think we could make a solution. I've
written a bit about it here at SourceForge:

  http://makeashorterlink.com/?T162215A2

I don't have time to implement this myself right now, so if someone
feels up to the task, then please say so. I don't think it's that
hard:

* The stations.csv file has to be extended with the extra data.
  Perhaps we should change the format of the file, I don't think it
  was particularly clever of me to use ## to delimit countries and #
  to start comments...

* The SQL-based databases has to have their schema updated with extra
  fields for latitude and longitude, not a problem.

* The db_null database has to change by increasing PW_LINE_LENGTH and
  changing lookup_icao() accourdingly.

* New access methods should be added to data_retrieval.php to access
  the new information.

* The pw_images class has to be changed so that it takes advantage for
  the new information.

I'll try and provide all the help I can through the mailinglist if
someone wants to give it a try.

> however I cannot install CVS on my computer so I was wondering if
> somebody had either done a patch or is actually making the latest
> nightlies readily available on his/her website.

I used to have a cronjob running at SourceForge that would make a
snapshot of CVS and put it here:

  http://phpweather.net/downloads/

But recently the script stopped working: it got errors about a
read-only file system... I haven't really looked into it, though...

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