[LINK] If a clock ticks in a Klearphelled forest, ...

[Tom Worthington]

At 08:19 AM 6/04/2008, Jon Seymour wrote:
>  ... on the PC, the Windows system tray clock is correct but the 
> time display on
>Age/SMH is still showing DST time  ...

The SMH web site uses Javascript to calculate the time from the 
user's computer system clock. Some such displays went wrong around 
the year 2000, including the Australian Defence Department's Y2K 
countdown clock <http://www.anu.edu.au/mail-archives/link/link0001/0009.html>.

The SMH web page calculates UTC from the local time and then Sydney 
time from that. Exactly how they do this is in the code of the page, 
but why they do this, rather than just inserting the time from their 
server, is not clear.

The time does not update on the web page, it just shows whatever time 
was calculated when the page was loaded. There is an adjustment for 
daylight saving hardcoded.

There are times on the stories on the same page, but these are hard 
coded in the HTML, not computed using Javascript and so may not match 
the time at the top of the page.



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