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Timezone Script by sjholt on 06-25-2006 at 10:31 AM
Hi Everyone,
I'd like to create a script that appends a contacts timezone or the actual time in their location to the end of their name in the contact list. If this is not possible then I'd like to create a script to work out the time in a contacts location and display this as a message/popup. Does anyone know if it is possible to get the information about time/timezone from a contacts details ?
PS - fantastic work by the way Patchou - awesome application as usual 
RE: Timezone Script by CookieRevised on 06-25-2006 at 12:08 PM
quote:I thought about such a feature/script too however:
Originally posted by sjholt
Hi Everyone,
I'd like to create a script that appends a contacts timezone or the actual time in their location to the end of their name in the contact list. If this is not possible then I'd like to create a script to work out the time in a contacts location and display this as a message/popup. Does anyone know if it is possible to get the information about time/timezone from a contacts details ?
PS - fantastic work by the way Patchou - awesome application as usual
** append a contacts timezone or the actual time in their location to the end of their name in the contact list.
=> This is not possible as you can not modify such things. The best you could do is to create a nickname for the user and constantly update it. But this is a very lame-ass and bad way of doing it if you attempt to do this with a script.
As for a built in feature in Plus!Live, it is possible, but I also doubt something like this will be added.
** I'd like to create a script to work out the time in a contacts location
=> It is not possible to determine in which timezone a contact is without explicitly asking this.
You could, in theory, determine the timezone by looking at the IP-address of your contact, but that is not always accurate (although in almost all cases it will be accurate enough). But this also requires a good way to grab the IP-address and that is not easly and in a clean way doable.
** ...and display this as a message/popup.
=> When are you going to show this popup? Are you constantly going to show a popup window or constantly messaging a text? That would be highly annoying... Or will it be a dialog window which is constantly on top? And how would you determine from which contact you would like to see the timezone of?
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Many questions and many things to consider... If such a feature is included or such a script is made, it would usefull to some people (hell, I would use it too). But there is no easy/clean way to make something like this automated...
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Also see:
"Attaching timezone attributes to my chat list - A Suggestion"
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