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[Request] Grab timezone, and display PSM accordingly? by Keikonium on 10-10-2006 at 08:32 PM

I just thought of this a few moments ago. An english friend of mine said "You work at 5:00! You're late you know :P". I explained that it was 5:00 MY time (which was 10:00 hers).

Well here is my idea. Have a script that could possibly calculate the timezone (based on the computer time) of the person on the other end and display a personal message that contains times accordingly.

I like in Canada, and when its 5:00 pm here, its 10:00 pm in England (approx). I work 5pm-9pm most days, and have that in my personal message sometimes (usually in my display name tho).

Anyway, if I put "I work 5:00pm to 9:00pm, be back later" in my name, then this script would show "I work 10:00pm to 2:00am, be back later" for my english friends.

I have people all over the world, and its a hassle when they don't clue in right away because of time zone differences lol.

Is this possible??


RE: [Request] Grab timezone, and display PSM accordingly? by MicroWay on 10-10-2006 at 09:11 PM

Sorry If I'm wrong, but...
How about this...

http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=65614&page=1

If is not what you want, I think it would be a good start.

:)


RE: [Request] Grab timezone, and display PSM accordingly? by deAd on 10-10-2006 at 09:31 PM

I might be reading your post wrong, but you can't display a specific psm for each contact.


RE: [Request] Grab timezone, and display PSM accordingly? by Keikonium on 10-11-2006 at 01:47 AM

Yeah, what I wanted was a dynamic time zone for each contact to see. That sucks that it can't be done, but I didn't think it could anyway.

Thanks for that link MicroWay :). Not what I am looking for, but still cool.