May be its just me, but there are things I would rather see OpenSRS
spending their programmers time on than saving me from subtracting 8 (7
in the summer).
Deid
Swerve wrote:
>
> From: John Keegan <john@rackshare.com>
> Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 23:22:25 -0500
> To: Swerve <swerve@swerve.com>, Dave Warren <maillist@devilsplayground.net>,
> <discuss-list@opensrs.org>
> Subject: Re: OpenSRS Live Reseller Update - 11/29/02
>
> Swerve,
>
> Thanks - glad to see someone saw the same analogy and a bit of irony
> regarding this issue. Everyone else seemed to think they had to respond with
> the proper definition of a time zone...
>
> Why not stick the outage into your database in UTC time, then rip your
> OpenSRS Live Reseller Updates out accordingly, with each reseller getting
> the outage in his own time zone...
>
>
> I am not a programmer. Oops. But your idea has sparked this idea, but not
> sure if it's scriptable. Resellers could tick off their time zone some where
> in their reseller account. (i use the gui interface.) Then when opensrs
> sends out emails, it states the UTC time and adds the Resellers local time
> in the body of the email. Problem with me and UTC, is i can never remember
> the time difference betw. that and Toronto, Canada time.
>
>
>>As someone mentioned, "It's not rocket science." I am the world's worst Perl
>>programmer - OK, maybe there are a few worse - but even I know how to
>>convert time zones...
>>
>>Sorry I brought it up.
>
>
> I'm not.
>
> g'night. or depending on what part of the world you are in,... good
> morning.
>
> Swerve
>
>>--
>>John Keegan
>>john@RackShare.com
>>http://RackShare.com
>>
>>
>>
>>>From: Swerve <swerve@swerve.com>
>>>Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 08:39:43 -0500
>>>To: Dave Warren <maillist@devilsplayground.net>, <discuss-list@opensrs.org>
>>>Subject: Re: OpenSRS Live Reseller Update - 11/29/02
>>>
>>>Oh, that's too many, Mr. Devils Playground.
>>>
>>>Having an asterisk beside the announced time and a list of 6-8 major cities
>>>and their respective times at the end of the email won't break the bandwidth
>>>and might even be an interesting aesthetic reflecting the large geographical
>>>range of the folks here.
>>>
>>>Kind of when you walk into a hotel that has 6 different clocks reflecting a
>>>wide range of their customers.
>>>
>>>Swerve
>>>
>>>"Get thee > back into the tempest..."
>>
>
>
>
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