Re: [Phpwiki-talk] comments to SystemInfo

[Johannes G. <jg...@qf...>]

On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Reini Urban wrote:

> BTW: I also thought of some kind of strftime formatting for current
> local times somewhere else, e.g. in russia or new zealand.
>
> Current time in Moskow: <?plugin CurrentTime timezone="EET+1 DST"
> format="%X" locale="ru" ?>.
>
> Now it's <?plugin CurrentTime timezone="PST DST" format="%X" ?> in
> California and <?plugin CurrentTime timezone="EST DST" format="%X" ?> in
> New York.
>

I always get confused with these different time zones.
(Sorry, as you know, european countries usually have
 only one time zone, so I don't have to think
 about time zones...)

But perhaps it would be possible to have a link on such a time
tag pointing to a table page allowing instant conversion?

Still nicer would be such a "fingertip", as it is known for the ALT text
of an image, which display a the time as world time or even better uses
the user preferences (as soon as we have some)
to translate it to local time.

As far a I remember, these fingertips can be created
for arbitrary html elements using the following code

<span name="time in reader's local format"> russian time code </span>

But I don't know if this is compatible (That is, if each browser
actually displays this as a fingertip).

Of course one could add a time image (say a clock) and use the
ALT text, but there is also the problem whether this is always
displayed as a small help window.

regards
Jo