World Timezones on indexpage

This hack puts a list of the worldtimezones on your index page, instructions and needed files are in the attached zipfile..

Currently there's no demo so if someone has installed it, plz add a link to it...

I've not tested it thoroughly but it seems to be working well..

enjoy

well like in the actaul vbb ya have 2 alt colors and it is tabled across the screen like you have the little box with the vb_bullet.gif that has 1st alt color then ya got the forum name 2nd alt color then ya got #posts 1st alt color then ya got #views 2nd alt color etc etc i would like mt cities to be in 1st alt color and the times to be in 2nd alt color to kinda match the forums

[Mas*Mind]

try this (untested, don't use the hack myself actually)

timezone_city_col:

<td valign="top"><table>$citycol</table></td>

timezone_city:

<tr>
<td bgcolor="{ firstaltcolor }"><smallfont><b>$cities</b></smallfont></td>
<td bgcolor="{ secondaltcolor }"><smallfont color="{ timecolor }">$datetime</smallfont></td>
</tr>

Remove the spaces out of the { blabla } variables

yes yes it worked thanx alot

[Christian]

One question:

Is it possible to have/make more than one entry for a certain timezone?

[Mas*Mind]

what do you mean exactly?

[Christian]

For example:

$timezones[-3] = "Brasilia";
$timezones[-3] = "Buenos Aires, Georgetown";
$timezones[-2] = "Mid-Atlantic";
$timezones[-1] = "Azores, Cape Verde Islands";
$timezones[0] = "Casablanca, Monrovia";
$timezones[0] = "Greenwich Mean Time: Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London";
$timezones[1] = "Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome. Stockholm, Vienna";
$timezones[1] = "Belgrade, Bratislava, Budapest, Ljubljana, Prague";
$timezones[1] = "Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris, Vilnius";
$timezones[1] = "Sarajevo, Skopje, Sofija, Warsaw, Zagreb";
$timezones[1] = "West-Central Africa";
$timezones[2] = "Athens, Istanbul, Minsk";
$timezones[2] = "Bucharest";
$timezones[2] = "Cairo";

It only reads out one entry!

I'm not 100% familiar with PHP yet!
Does the [x] mean that $timezones is an array?

[orca]

Great hack, worked like a charm.

Now all you have to do is link the timezones to the "who's online" feature.

[JJR512]

The time zone 0, the one with London, should not say Greenwich Mean Time. Even though London is in the same time zone as GMT, they are not always the same time. That's because London, in fact all of England, go on Daylight Savings Time, but Greenwich does not. GMT is the same all year round, but the actual time in that time zone may actually be GMT+1 when on DST. (Yes, oddly enough, that means that during part of the year, even Greenwich itself is GMT+1!)

I think this whole thing about GMT not going on DST while the time zone does is very confusing to many people, and actually leads to some errors in vBulletin. For example, right now on my board, my time zone offset is -5, and the board tells "all times are GMT -5 hours". But that's not true. Right now, my time is GMT -4 hours. My time zone, Eastern Time, is on DST. On standard time, ET is GMT -5, but when ET is on DST, it's GMT -4. Now compared to the actual time in England, I am -5 hours. But not compared to GMT.

Is this making sense?

[Mas*Mind]

Originally posted by Christian
For example:

$timezones[-3] = "Brasilia";
$timezones[-3] = "Buenos Aires, Georgetown";
$timezones[-2] = "Mid-Atlantic";
$timezones[-1] = "Azores, Cape Verde Islands";
$timezones[0] = "Casablanca, Monrovia";
$timezones[0] = "Greenwich Mean Time: Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London";
$timezones[1] = "Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome. Stockholm, Vienna";
$timezones[1] = "Belgrade, Bratislava, Budapest, Ljubljana, Prague";
$timezones[1] = "Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris, Vilnius";
$timezones[1] = "Sarajevo, Skopje, Sofija, Warsaw, Zagreb";
$timezones[1] = "West-Central Africa";
$timezones[2] = "Athens, Istanbul, Minsk";
$timezones[2] = "Bucharest";
$timezones[2] = "Cairo";

It only reads out one entry!

I'm not 100% familiar with PHP yet!
Does the [x] mean that $timezones is an array?

Yep, it's an array; So you can't do that I'm affraid... Maybe I'll work on it...