Hello Fred, Your explanation is well understood. Thanks OJ sent from google nexus On Aug 16, 2012 6:54 AM, "Frederic Muller - DFI" < fred@softwarefreedomday.org> wrote:
Hi!
Sorry for the late response, was finishing a lot of things including the OpenDisc SFD Edition 2012 and cleaning up the wiki as it seems too complicated for some people to follow the simple requirements of having their team/event page under their country and city (not to mention clicking on a map somewhere around the location where the event is most likely going to happen). /rant
The code for both countdown are available (one in the wiki and one in the webpage). They actually work differently as the website countdown (top banner) uses your computer clock to do the calculation while the SFD banner countdown uses the US server plus or minus an offset decided by the person who is hosting that banner. So in our case (SFD website) we are using the SFD server timezone which is UTC -4, though aware of the issue we are trying not to display both on the same page.
So now depending on where and from where you're looking there can obviously be a difference between the two.
I hope I have explained it well (besides we might as well use a different time for counting the final day: from midnight for one and 3am for the other one - I would have to double check again).
Fred
On 08/13/2012 01:36 AM, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
Just looking at the SFD site, i noticed the countdown are different. While that on top is reading 33days , the other(which is used by the community) s reading 34days.
http://softwarefreedomday.org/en/blog/194-100-teams-registered-
I see that too. At Sun Aug 12 19:01:29 CEST 2012 =GMT +02:00
I first wondered if timezone only honoured by 1 of 2 counts ? Considering: Where browser is (me: +02:00 = Germany) Where browser's possible proxies are (+02:00 = Germany) Where SFD servers are USA it seems ****** & if browser (or proxy ?) emit vars that might affect SFD page content, eg from my server http://www.berklix.net/cgi-bin/printenv I see TZ="Europe/Berlin"
However now, USA Sunday afternoon = Germany Sunday evening so timezones don't explain it. Presumably there's an "off by one" programming error ?
****** I guess SFD servers are in USA (but that might not be TZ in kernel) nslookup softwarefreedomday.org 70.87.222.73
traceroute 70.87.222.73
From DSL: 7 ae-47-47.ebr2.Paris1.Level3.net (4.69.143.142) 133.974 ms ae-48-48.ebr2.Paris1.Level3.net (4.69.143.146) 129.588 ms ae-46-46.ebr2.Paris1.Level3.net (4.69.143.138) 126.567 ms 8 ae-41-41.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.137.50) 110.777 ms ae-43-43.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.137.58) 127.463 ms ae-41-41.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.137.50) 112.367 ms 9 ae-92-92.csw4.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.158) 110.183 ms ae-82-82.csw3.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.154) 117.123 ms ae-62-62.csw1.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.146) 110.603 ms 10 ae-1-60.edge3.Washington4.Level3.net (4.69.149.18) 112.987 ms ae-4-90.edge3.Washington4.Level3.net (4.69.149.210) 111.647 mstraceroute: sendto: Permission denied
From berklix.net servers: 9 ae7.bbr01.eq01.dal03.networklayer.com (173.192.18.208) 137.062 ms 134.128 ms 133.489 ms 10 po31.dsr02.dllstx3.networklayer.com (173.192.18.227) 136.899 ms po31.dsr01.dllstx3.networklayer.com (173.192.18.225) 137.444 ms 137.451 ms 11 te1-3.dsr02.dllstx2.networklayer.com (70.87.253.122) 138.414 ms te3-3.dsr01.dllstx2.networklayer.com (70.87.255.114) 133.895 ms te3-1.dsr02.dllstx2.networklayer.com (70.87.255.130) 134.394 ms 12 po2.car01.dllstx2.networklayer.com (70.87.254.78) 135.647 ms 135.668 ms 196.911 ms 13 router1-dal.linode.com (67.18.7.90) 133.804 ms 136.847 ms 133.656 ms 14 * * *
Cheers, Julian
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