From markMLl.webcalendar a t telemetry.co.uk  Thu Jul 14 00:24:50 2005
From: markMLl.webcalendar a t telemetry.co.uk (Mark Morgan Lloyd)
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 23:24:50 +0000
Subject: [Webcalendar] Modifications for timezone handling
Message-ID: <42D5A2C2.A9899097 a t telemetry.co.uk>

I've been running Webcalendar here for around a year, but have only just got a
mailing list gateway set up, hence the rather belated comment.

Before anything else I'd like to lavish praise on the effective use that
WebCalendar makes of fairly simple HTML, a lot of app and site designers could
learn a lot from it. Keep up the good work :-)

We run around half of our computers on GMT here year-round, with the others
applying DST during the Summer months. I've made a number of modifications that
cause the client to keep correct local time irrespective of its clock setting,
using a mixture of Perl and JavaScript. It might be possible to use this as a
platform to handle meetings etc. affecting users spread over multiple timezones.

Unfortunately I'm still running 2.8.8 here and it will be some while before I'm
able to study the current version and merge the same changes, but anybody is
welcome to them- just specify the format.

Purely as eye-candy I've also animated the clock's colon so it flashes like a
traditional alarm clock. Finally, I don't like to point this out but I'm afraid
the images for the 1st and 3rd quarters of the Moon should be interchanged- as
shipped they're for the Southern hemisphere, not the Northern.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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