JavaScript Time Zone Conversion with Walltime

JavaScript Time Zone Conversion with Walltime(engineering.sproutsocial.com)

11 points by Jacob4u2 13 years ago | 14 comments

dfc 13 years ago |

Could not embed GitHub Gist 4091298: API Rate Limit Exceeded for 198.61.245.60

A good example of why using gist for your corporate blog may not be such a good idea. Right when you are getting a lot of attention your post becomes a lot less useful.

Its too bad because I was interested to read the article

aaronrankin 13 years ago | |

Visit the Github directly https://github.com/sproutsocial/walltime-js.

dfc 13 years ago | | |

You signed up on HN to give the worst company response ever in a HN thread? Is "visit the github" a new brocode meme?

Jacob4u2 13 years ago | |

Interesting... never seen gist's fall on their face before like that. Here is a direct link if you are still interested: https://gist.github.com/jgable/4091298

ComputerGuru 13 years ago | |

I don't understand. The IP address should be yours and not his servers, as gists are client-side embeds, no?

dfc 13 years ago | | |

That is not my IP

stantonk 13 years ago | |

Good example of why Github should be using memcached for gists, IMHO :-\

joshfraser 13 years ago |

This post is dated, but describes some of the challenges with detecting timezones using JavaScript:

http://www.onlineaspect.com/2007/06/08/auto-detect-a-time-zo...

My code has since been adapted and lives on as jstz.min.js. This is the best library I know for handling this sort of stuff: https://bitbucket.org/pellepim/jstimezonedetect

Jacob4u2 13 years ago | |

That's an interesting post, and an equally interesting library. However, Walltime is more concerned with the displaying of dates than the detection of timezones.

The example I give from the post explains it like this "... if I’m a user in Australia, and I want to post something at 3:00 AM Chicago time, where the majority of my followers are, how do I calculate that accurately with JavaScript and send it up to the server?". Or, if I'm a user in Australia, but I want to display all my dates on the site like I'm a user in Chicago, how would I do that?

Take a look at the github page description for more info about the type of problems it can help with: http://sproutsocial.github.com/walltime-js/

joshfraser 13 years ago | | |

Ah, skimmed too fast. Thanks for the clarification. I just happened to notice that some of the DST detection logic seemed similar.

geedew 13 years ago |

+1 for being a quality software solution.