Re: [Gaim-devel] Best way of implementing Buddy's Time plugin

[Tom W. <to...@to...>]

On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 01:37 -0500, Richard Laager wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 14:55 +1000, Jon Manning wrote:
> > 1. Query their location and work out their timezone from that
> > 2. Have them run a plugin that responds to special 'hey, what time is
> > it over there' messages
> >=20
> > The plugin would also provide the ability to add a selected buddy's
> > timezone information yourself, if they choose not to publish it (and,
> > of course, you know their timezone already).
>=20
> While I personally have no use for such a plugin, I have some thoughts
> on how it might be implemented. Take all this with a grain of salt as
> it's late and I should be asleep instead of trying to think. :-)
>=20
> The timezone to display would be determined by this priority order:
>=20
<snip>

> 3. The timezone obtained via their IP address (using that GeoIP database
> or whatever it's called). (Obviously, this is only useful when their IP
> address can be obtained.)
>=20

Just a point - this is not always accurate, especially with satellite
broadband connections.  For example, Aramiska UK customers are shown as
being in Belgium.

<sip>

--=20
Tom Wesley <to...@to...>