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Seems like a little java code embedded in the page could<br>
1)pull the local time from the PC's _local_ clock and display it along
side the "report received XX seconds ago" as "page rendered at XX:xx,
report received xx seconds ago"<br>
or <br>
2)initialize a little java script that counts up. Findu could
initialize this counter as the page was rendered from the CGI script.
This would count up from the initial value of "report recieved XX
seconds ago". If the user didn't have java enabled on their machine,
they'd see a static time as they do now - or as in #1 above. For
example, if my station had been heard from 40 seconds ago, when CGI
rendered the page, it would seed the java counter with the value of
40. Once the page was displayed fully on my machine, the java counter
would start running and display 40,41,42,43 seconds old. The java
script embedded in the web page rendering would be responsible for
changing the display format from XX seconds to XX hours, yy seconds....
etc....<br>
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Unless there's some problem with embedding java script in the findu
pages?<br>
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How's that?<br>
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Wes<br>
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Robert Bruninga wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Actually, there's a really simple solution that leaves
all this complexity out of it. Bob is asking for a time on
the page but that isn't really what he wants. What he
really wants to know is how long ago the page was
sent to his browser.
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No, all I want is the same computer that is saying that
this packet is 13 seconds old, and the next packet was
1 minute and 47 seconds old, to also put at the top of
the page what the time was when it made that subtraction.
Nothing could be simpler.
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<pre wrap="">All you have to do is store the initial time the browser
got the page, calculate the difference and display it.
I'm sure many of the counters would provide a starting
place but I'll bet there's a sample in one of the
online developer forums. By doing this the time zone
doesn't matter in the least.
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That sounds like a rube-goldberg approach to what I am
asking which is simply putting a time stamp on the page
the instant it was written. Then for seconds later or
for all posterity, everything on the page is relivant
and unambiguous. Without the time stamp, the page
is ambiguous the instant it is created.
Bob
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