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Automatic Timezone Setting Correction · **Released**: 03-28-2003

I have eliminated the only strange error I could find with this, so I am moving it to full releases.

What This Does
If your users pay as little attention to their options as mine do, this might be just what you need. It uses a JavaScript to detect when a user has their timezone setting set different than their computer's clock. If the computer time does not match, the user is given a JavaScript prompt on your main page asking whether he/she would like to adjust their timezone setting. If they select yes, a new window will pop up, make the change, and close. EXCEPTION: This will yield very unsatisfactory results for users in strange timezones whose offsets are not whole numbers (i.e. Newfoundland is GMT-3.5). I haven't figured out how to do this yet, but I will update this hack if I do figure it out. You may want to just remove those options from your registration/profile options.

Scroll down for screenshots.

Let me know how it works out, and, as always, click INSTALL if you use it, please!

Enjoy!

Download: here

N!ck · #2 03-29-2003, 05:45 AM

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N!ck · #3 03-29-2003, 05:47 AM

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N!ck · #4 03-29-2003, 05:51 AM

Just after update...

Smoothie · #5 03-29-2003, 06:47 AM

Just re-installed, seems to be working fine! Question, after getting the first prompt, clicking ok, the second alert box appears, but there is a small window which appears in the upper left corner of my screen... why is that?

N!ck · #6 03-29-2003, 06:50 AM

Glad to hear it. It's the window that the update script runs in.

Smoothie · #7 03-29-2003, 07:22 AM

In IE, the window is so tiny, you can't see what it says. In Mozilla, the javascript window covers it up.

Al7zen · #8 03-29-2003, 08:02 AM

Great Work

Smoothie · #9 03-29-2003, 08:29 AM

Found a bug, or a problem. If your time setting in your User CP is set to anything above GMT -11, it updates in the wrong direction. My time zone is GMT -5. If I set to GMT -11, or GMT -12, etc, the script updates me to GMT -29. Going in the other direction, GMT +11, GMt +12, etc, it updates back to GMT -5, which is correct. Hope all that makes sense...

Zelda-King · #10 03-29-2003, 12:02 PM

Yes, I have people who's offset is +11. They don't set it (so on the boards it's listed as offset 0) and it updates to -13.